Girls at War

Full of characteristic energy and authenticity, the stories in this classic collection capture the remarkable talent of one of the world's most acclaimed writers and storytellers. Here we read of an ambitious farmer who is suddenly shunned by his village when a madman exacts his humiliating revenge; a young nanny who is promised an education by her well-to-do employers, only to be cruelly cheated out of it; and in three fiercely observed stories about the Nigerian civil war, we are confronted with the economic, ethnic, cultural, and religious tensions that continue to rack modern Africa. Displaying an astonishing range of experience, Chinua Achebe deftly takes us inside the heart and soul of a people whose pride and ideals must compete with the simple struggle to survive.