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Book Title: Home and Exile
Item Length: 7.9in
Item Height: 0.4in
Item Width: 5.1in
Author: Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Africa / General, Literary, Political, Essays, African, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Literary Collections, Social Science
Item Weight: 4.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
