Things Fall Apart

Author: Chinua Achebe
Genre: Historical fiction
Other works by Achebe: No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah, and others.

Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart isn't about one specific historical event or movements like many pieces of literature used as social reform. The message of his book is primarily based around the immemorial conflicts between the individual and society as a whole. Achebe is using a culture, in this case a Nigerian village, to depict a more universal theme as opposed to a specific political issue such as corruption found among the ideals of the Soviet Union (George Orwell's Animal Farm).