# There Was a Country

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- Book: [There Was a Country](https://www.bookquiver.com/chinua-achebe/there-was-a-country) ([There Was a Country.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chinua-achebe/there-was-a-country.md))
- Authors: [Chinua Achebe](https://www.bookquiver.com/chinua-achebe)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-403-0
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2013-09-24
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe...