Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart (and many other novels) and icon of modern African literature, died today at 82.
She looked at each in turn with a strained smile on her countenance. `Truth is beauty, isn’t it? It must be you know to make someone dying in that pain, to make him … smile. He sees it and it is … How can I say it? … It is unbearably, yes unbearably beautiful.