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May 14, 2013 · CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE's work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker and Granta. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize; Americanah, which won the NBCC Award and was a New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year; the story collection The Thing Around Your ...
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Americanah follows Ifemelu’s quest to forge her own, authentic identity and build a space for her voice. When Ifemelu meets Obinze in high school, she believes she’s found the love of her life. Ifemelu is used to people disliking her outspoken and even blunt nature, but it is what draws Obinze to her. Even if Ifemelu doesn’t quite believe ...
Full title Americanah. Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Type of work Novel. Genre Socio-political fiction. Language English. Time and place written 2011–2012; Cambridge, Massachusetts. Date of first publication May 2013. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf.
Americanah Summary. Ifemelu is a young woman from Nigeria living in the United States. The novel begins as she takes the train from Princeton, New Jersey, the posh university town where she has a fellowship as a writer, to Trenton, New Jersey, a nearby city that is much poorer, to get braids done before returning to Nigeria.
Mar 4, 2014 · Americanah is no exception. This is not just a story that unfolds across three different continents, it is also a keenly observed examination of race, identity and belonging in the global landscapes of Africans and Americans. If Joyce had silence, exile and cunning for his defense, Adichie has flair, loss and longing.
Jun 27, 2013 · Adichie is a MacArthur Fellowship winner and author of the novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of A Yellow Sun.Her new novel, Americanah, explores this question of what it means to be black in the U.S ...
Mar 7, 2014 · Adichie is a MacArthur Fellowship winner and author of the novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of A Yellow Sun. Her novel Americanah explores this question of what it means to be black in the U.S ...
