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January 1958

  • The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle, #2)by Chester Himes
    Not ratedpublished January 1, 1958

    When Harlemites set about each other with knives, it's an everyday kind of happening. But when a white man is shot dead in a Harlem street one steamy evening it means trouble, big trouble. Plenty of people had motives for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too gre...

  • Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)by Chinua Achebe
    3.75 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished January 1, 1958

    Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world. The second,...