Book recommendations by Pépite Blues
It Takes a Child’s Heart to Face the End of the World
Since the end of World War II, the world, and Europe in particular, has lived in fear of global collapse: conflict, climate change, nuclear destruction… There is no shortage of challenges. Yet, since then, many populations around the globe say they have already come close to the end of the world.
In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe tells the story of a pre-colonial Igbo society in Nigeria at the turning point of its encounter with ‘white men’, the missionaries. It is a complex s (…)
