Title: A powerful story with compelling characters, simpley written
Product review: The prose is simple an unpretensious. The story is very moving, with complex characters and plot elements. What I most appreciate about this novel is that it is so well balanced. It is not a diatribe against English colonialism like it could have been. Achebe doesn't romantacize Ibo life before the English came, nor does he condemn the changes which were wrought after. He objectively descibes the transition of a society when elements of another culture are introduced to it. For some like Okwonkwo the effect is devastating, others such as Okwonko's son welcome the change. He leaves it up to the reader to decide what is good or bad.
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