No Longer at Ease
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| Author | Chinua Achebe |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Heinemann |
Publication date | 1960 |
| Publication place | Nigeria |
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| Preceded by | Things Fall Apart |
| Followed by | Arrow of God |
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Colonial Nigeria civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the second book of Achebe and second work in the "African trilogy"; following Things Fall Apart and preceding Arrow of God.