People of the City is a novel by Cyprian Ekwensi that preempted the importance of a novel first published in what year?
People of the City People of the City is the debut novel of Cyprian Ekwensi first published in 1954 as part of the influential African Writers Series. In Ekwensi's obituary in "The Guardian", Shola Adenekan called the novel "the first Nigerian work to gain international acclaim and the first Nigerian novel to be published in Britain", preempting the importance of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart." The novel was a predecessor to a number of other city novels in the Nigerian tradition.
Night Flight (novel) Night Flight , published as "Vol de Nuit" in 1931, was the second novel by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It went on to become an international bestseller and a film based on it appeared in 1933. Its popularity, which only grew with the ideological conflicts of the 1930s – 1940s, was due to its master theme of sacrificing personal considerations to a cause in which one believes.