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Adichie's (The Thing Around Your Neck) remarkable novel is partly an immigrant experience narrative, partly pointed social commentary, and partly a love story. Ifemelu and Obinze fell in love as teenagers in 1990s Lagos, Nigeria, when the country was under military dictatorship. Ifemelu immigrates to the United States, while Obinze gets a tourist visa to England but cannot attain permanent status and is discovered and deported. Meanwhile, Ifemelu completes college in Philadelphia and writes an extremely successful blog called "Raceteenth; or Various Observations About American Blacks by a Non-American Black." Back home, Obinze becomes part of the upper middle class in oil-rich Nigeria, with a wife, a child, and a big house. After 15 years in the States, Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, where the couple reunite and must determine if their passion has endured the years of separation. Adjoa Andoh's narration is superb. Every character is clearly and distinctly voiced. The African-accented English is crystal clear. The American characters-Andoh's interpretation of Ifemelu's observations-are deliciously caricatured. VERDICT This may well be the best narration of the year. -["Witty, wry, and observant, Adichie is a marvelous storyteller who writes passionately about the difficulty of assimilation and the love that binds a man, a woman, and their homeland," read the starred review of the Knopf hc, LJ 5/1/13.]-Nann Blaine Hilyard, formerly with Zion-Benton P.L., IL (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria on September 15, 1977. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half before moving to the United States, where she studied communication at Drexel University for two years. She received a bachelor's degree in communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2001, a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, and a master's degree in African Studies from Yale University in 2008.
Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was published in 2003 and received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2005. Her other books include The Thing around Your Neck, Americanah, and We Should All Be Feminist. Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize in 2007. She was awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize, for her body of work that shows 'outstanding literary merit'.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction * A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America--and the search for what it means to call a place home. * From the award-winning author of Dream Count, We Should All Be Feminists, and Half of a Yellow Sun "An expansive, epic love story."--O, The Oprah Magazine One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century * One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel that is "dazzling...funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise." --San Francisco Chronicle
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Title Statement | Americanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. |
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Author | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- |
Publication | Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2014, c2013. |
Edition | Vintage Canada ed. |
Extent of Item | 588 p. |
ISBN | 0307397920 (pbk.) 9780307397928 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 2494838 |
Summary | A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected. |
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By Topic | Nigerians--Fiction--England |
Nigerians--Fiction--United States | |
Refugees--Fiction | |
Race relations--Fiction | |
Immigrants--Fiction | |
By Location | Nigeria--Fiction |