One character in this novel Âfixates on the absurdity of an apartment that has two lamps in the lavatory and none in thestairs where people actually bump into one another. At a job interview, the protagonist of this novel bu
One character in this novel Âfixates on the absurdity of an apartment that has two lamps in the lavatory and none in thestairs where people actually bump into one another. At a job interview, the protagonist of this novel bullshits his way througha conversation about Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter, and later storms out of a meeting yelling "you may cut omy two legs if you Âfind them here again." At the age of eleven, the protagonist of this novel feels guilty about participating inwartime propaganda, so he writes a naively apologetic letter to Hitler. In this novel, the attractive secretary Marie Tomlinsonspies on the main character for his boss Mr. Green, and the protagonist fiÂrst meets his girlfriend on a boat ride returning homefrom England, where he was studying law on a scholarship. This novel opens with the protagonist's trial for bribery beforebacktracking to show him becoming progressively overwhelmed by payments for both his loan to the Progressive Union andan abortion for his low-casteosu lover, Clara. For 10 points, name this novel about the corrupt Igbo civil servant Obi Okonkwo,Achebe's sequel to Things Fall Apart.
One character in this novel Âfixates on the absurdity of an apartment that has two lamps in the lavatory and none in thestairs where people actually bump into one another.
No Longer at Ease