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He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centres of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and is a graduate of University College, Ibadan .  \nHis early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War . Achebe joined the Biafran Ministry of Information and represented Biafra on various diplomatic and fund-raising missions. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad. For over fifteen years he was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College . He is now the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.  \nChinua Achebe has written over twenty books – novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry – including Things Fall Apart (1958), which has now sold over ten million copies worldwide and been translated into more than fifty languages; Arrow of God (1964); Beware, Soul Brother and Other Poems (1971), winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; Anthills of the Savannah (1987), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays (1988); and Home and Exile (2000) .  \nAchebe has received numerous honours from around the world, including the Honorary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as honorary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities. He is also the recipient of Nigeria ’s highest award for intellectual achievement, the Nigerian National Merit Award. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction .  \nCHINUA ACHEBE  \nArrow of God  \nPENGUIN BOOKS  \nPENGUIN CLASSICS  \nPublished by the Penguin Group  \n Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England  \nPenguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada) , 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3  \n( a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.)  \nPenguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland ( a division of Penguin Books Ltd)  \nPenguin Group (Australia) , 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia ( a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd)  \nPenguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India  \nPenguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand ( a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd)  \nPenguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa  \nPenguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England  \n[www.penguin.com](www.penguin.com)  \nFirst published in the African Writers Series 1965 Published in Penguin Classics 2010  \n Copyright © Chinua Achebe, 2010  All rights reserved  \nThe moral right of the author has been asserted  \nExcept in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that itshall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other  \nthan that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser  \nISBN: 978-0-14-193068-8  \nTo the memory of my father ISAIAH OKAFOR ACHEBE  \nPreface to Second Edition  \nWhenever people have asked me which among my novels is my favourite I have always evaded a direct answer, being strongly of the mind that in sheer invidiousness that question is fully comparable to asking a man to list his children in the order in which he loves them. A paterfamilias worth his salt will, if he must, speak about the peculiar attractiveness of each child.  \nFor Arrow of God that peculiar quality may lie in the fact that it is the novel","cbCain0vRdWrkAfg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain0vRdWrkAfg","pdf",1449191,231,"English","# Preface to Second Edition\n## Preface purpose and reflections\n# Chapter One\n## Watching for the new moon\n## Ezeulu’s hut and sky observation","[{\"question\":\"Why does the author mention changes in the Preface to the Second Edition?\",\"answer\":\"He explains that readers have both admirers and detractors and that he used the new edition to remove certain structural weaknesses, hoping the changes will be received well.\"},{\"question\":\"What is Ezeulu’s task at the start of Chapter One?\",\"answer\":\"He begins his watch three days early to look for signs of the new moon, to avoid the risk of missing its appearance.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Ezeulu’s hut help him during the new-moon watch?\",\"answer\":\"The hut includes an additional entrance section whose eaves are cut back, allowing him to sit and watch the part of the sky where the moon’s “door” is.\"}]","Arrow of God - Preface to Second Edition - Chapter One | PDF",1789772905,356]