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Americanah. A powerful, tender story of race and identity by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun. 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 ...
Apr 15, 2013 · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah is a book that manages to do both. It is ostensibly a love story – the tale of childhood sweethearts at school in Nigeria whose lives take different paths ...
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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May 14, 2013 · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, Financial Times, and Zoetrope: All-Story.She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half ...
May 19, 2013 · In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book, “Americanah,” the main characters find that race matters wherever they go. ... AMERICANAH By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 477 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95.
Apr 11, 2013 · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's accomplished third novel is a subtly provocative exploration of oppression and the idea of home. Alex Clark. Thu 11 Apr 2013 04.01 EDT. A fter 13 years in the United ...
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May 14, 2013 · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's work has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta and Zoetrope. She is the author of The Thing Around Your Neck and of 2 novels, Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a NBCC Finalist. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
