Amanda's review of No Longer at Ease
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
I read this during jury duty. It was good. The main character asked for a loan from his village council to attend European university. When he comes back to his country he gets a job. But then he is expected to fulfill a certain status role. He has to live in the city and drive a car and eat meat in his soup, etc. But all the time he is becoming more and more in debt, and he can't marry his love because she is from an undesirable social class. Also once he has an education and a job, his family and friends expect him to support them as well. So he is a man of good intentions. He refuses to accept bribes from people until this one time he is so down and could really use twenty pounds and he doesn't accept a bribe, but he doesn't refuse. And then.....
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