A review by afreema3
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Read for my History of North and West Africa Class.
What an interesting book. I struggled to get into it, but after maybe the second or third chapter I could hardly put it down. I did wait until the last minute to read this for class, but still I thoroughly enjoyed it. I skimmed through Things Fall Apart in the summer before my sophomore year of high school started, and so I never got to really enjoy Achebe's work before, but now, after getting the chance to read this for a history class instead of English class, and in college. I really did enjoy it. It is a different type of novel, that someone who mainly reads from the Western canon, rarely comes upon. I'd like to read more from Achebe and other Nigerian authors, luckily I will be reading another novel for this class in the coming weeks.
I'm glad I don't rate books I read for school, because I feel like this would be hard to rate, and I'm not sure I would give it the rating it deserves. This was a good book, but I'm coming at this from someone that has never really read African fiction before, and I was reading it for a history class, and so my analysis and view is not one from a typical literature student.
What an interesting book. I struggled to get into it, but after maybe the second or third chapter I could hardly put it down. I did wait until the last minute to read this for class, but still I thoroughly enjoyed it. I skimmed through Things Fall Apart in the summer before my sophomore year of high school started, and so I never got to really enjoy Achebe's work before, but now, after getting the chance to read this for a history class instead of English class, and in college. I really did enjoy it. It is a different type of novel, that someone who mainly reads from the Western canon, rarely comes upon. I'd like to read more from Achebe and other Nigerian authors, luckily I will be reading another novel for this class in the coming weeks.
I'm glad I don't rate books I read for school, because I feel like this would be hard to rate, and I'm not sure I would give it the rating it deserves. This was a good book, but I'm coming at this from someone that has never really read African fiction before, and I was reading it for a history class, and so my analysis and view is not one from a typical literature student.