[English version below]

Gaiscíoch mór le rá is ea Okonkwo, agus a cháil in airde ar na fir is cumhachtaí agus is saibhre ina threabhchas. Is duine ceanndána é, afách, agus is minic a theipeann air srian a chur leis a fhearg. Íocann sé féin agus a mhuintir go daor as sin. Nuair a bhagraíonn teacht ar fhir ghil ar thraidisúin an treabhcháis, Gníomhaíonn Okonkwo as a stuaim féin. Toradh tragóideach atá i ndán dó, afách.

Tá an t-úrscéal seo aitheanta ar chlasaicí litríocht an domhan ó foilsíodh i 1958 é. Tá sé aistrithe chuig breis is leathchéad teangacha, agus breis is deich milliún cóip de díolta. Agus é ag cur síos go grinn báúil ar chinniúint an duine ar fad i saol ár linne.

Láithreoir: Seán Ó Catháin

Aíonna: Alan Titley agus Aonghus Ó Lochlainn

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More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published in 1958. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United States.

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places

Presenter: Seán Ó Catháin

Guests: Alan Titley and Aonghus Ó Lochlainn