Arrow of God

"Chinua Achebe is a magical writer-one of the great. est of the twentieth century." -MARGARET ATWOOD

"It is a measure of Achebe's creative gift that he has no need whatever for prose fireworks to light the flame of his intense drama. Worthy of particular attention are the characters. Achebe doesn't create his people with fastidiously detailed line drawings: instead, he relies on a few short strokes that highlight whatever prominent fea- tures will bring the total personality into three-dimen- sional life." -TIME

"The power and majesty of Chinua Achebe's work has, lit- erally, opened the world to generations of readers. He is an ambassador of art, and a profound recorder of the human condition." -MICHAEL DORRIS

"He is one of the few writers of our time who has touched us with a code of values that will never be ironic. This great voice."