Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hardcover | Pages: 477 pages Rating: 4.3 | 228182 Users | 20555 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Americanah |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ifemelu, Obinze Maduewesi , Blaine (Americanah), Shan, Curt (Americanah), Aunty Uju, Dike, Ginika, Emenike, Ranyinudo |
| Setting: | Lagos(Nigeria) London, England Princeton, New Jersey(United States) …more United States of America Nigeria …less |
| Literary Awards: | Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (2013), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2013), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2014), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (Shortlist) (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2013) Go On Girl! Book Club Award for Author of the Year (2016), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2015) |
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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. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland. Source: chimamanda.comDescribe Regarding Books Americanah
| Title | : | Americanah |
| Author | : | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 477 pages |
| Published | : | May 14th 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Contemporary. Feminism. Literary Fiction |
Rating Regarding Books Americanah
Ratings: 4.3 From 228182 Users | 20555 ReviewsAssess Regarding Books Americanah
I loved this book; even though it was long and essentially a romance, but there was so much more to it. It is also about race, gender and the nature of home. As the Guardian review points out, it is an exploration of structural inequality and types of oppression, but it is wrapped in a love story. The novel revolves around Ifemelu and Obinze and their on/off relationship over time and distance. It starts in their teenage years in Nigeria and follows them around the world; Ifemelu to the US andWow, nail on the head!
I'm only about halfway through this book but I am enthralled. I was afraid that I was over-eager and could only be disappointed, that I had set the bar too high, that I should remember that Adichie is only human, after all. But my fears were misplaced. ''Chimmy'' is back as strong as ever. I am mildly amused at how she's promoted the book in her interviews as being "about hair". This book is about race, and culture. (Admittedly, that's what it says in the blurb.) Anyway, so far, it is
I enjoyed this writer's previous novels and expected to like this one too, but I was disappointed. There are several reasons for this but the one that had the most impact was the sense that the writer wasn't sure what type of novel this should be. Was it a love story, a story of immigration, the story of black people in today's America - the issues all merely rolled out but never properly addressed - or was it an attempt to educate readers on the differences between the various ethnic black
UPDATE: Now with irritating author interview! See end of review.Those of you who know me know I dont really have favorite authors: I have favorite books, occasionally favorite series. So you wont be surprised that after I thought Half of a Yellow Sun was amazing and Purple Hibiscus and The Thing Around Your Neck fairly good, Im giving 2 stars (edit: 1 star) to Adichies latest. Typical. But really, yikes! This isn't even a novel: it's a 477-page opinion essay with some characters thrown in.Read
This review is spot on and thats actually why I LOVED the book. It was an opinion piece that was narrated. Not just written. She used three ways of
Why did people ask What is it about? as if a novel had to be about only one thing. It's this opening quote that raised my intrigue by a tenfold on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah. I've read (and reviewed in praise) her previous Nonfiction works (Dear Ijeawele & We Should All Be Feminists) so I knew Adichie to be an author with a compelling way of words, but all that paled in comparison to the character building she excels at exploring in this fictional work of art.As teenagers in
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