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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Category: Fiction | Series: The Perennial Collection
A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanaticall ...Show more
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Category: Fiction
The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer. When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in ...Show more
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Category: Fiction
"One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation." --Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, w ...Show more
THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK by ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA NGOZI
Category: Fiction
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In 'A Private Experience,' a medical student hides from a violent ...Show more
The Best Short Stories 2021 - The O. Henry Prize Winners by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Editor); Jenny Minton Quigley (Series edited by)
Category: Anthology | Series: The\O. Henry Prize Collection
Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year--continuing the O. Henry Prize's century-long tradition of literary excellence. Now entering its second century, the prestigious annual story anthology has a new title, a new look, and a new guest ...Show more
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Category: Fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, "Purple Hibiscus, "which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore "Sun"), with "prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes" ("The Boston Globe"); "Th ...Show more
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Category: Fiction
A dazzling story collection from the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists, "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama). In these twelve riveting stories, the award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and child ...Show more
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Category: Fiction
From the Orange Prize-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In 'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose d ...Show more
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Category: Fiction
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In 'A Private Experience,' a medical student hides from a violent r ...Show more
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah, "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama). In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers ...Show more
We Should All Be Feminists: the Desk Diary 2021 by Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi
Category: Diaries
A beautiful hardback, elastic hinged desk diary with a week to a view alongside an inspiring and powerful quote or a photograph of Chimamanda and a brand-new introduction from her. 'We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.' 'Not one day longer.' This year, with some words of wi ...Show more