Americanah

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful new novela story of love and race centred around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face

Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in todays globalized world.

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A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say Elizabeth Day, Observer

A delicious, important novel from a writer with a great deal to say The Times

A brilliant exploration of being African in America an urgent and important book, further evidence that its author is a real talent Sunday Telegraph

An extremely thoughtful, subtly provocative exploration of structural inequality, of different kinds of oppression, of gender roles, of the idea of home. Subtle, but not afraid to pull its punches Alex Clark, Guardian

A tour de force The artistry with which Adichie keeps her story moving, while animating the complex anxieties in which the characters live and work, is hugely impressive Mail on Sunday

Adichie is terrific on human interactions Adichies writing always has an elegant shimmer to it Wise, entertaining and unendingly perceptive Independent on Sunday

Adichie paints on a grand canvas, boldly and confidently This is a very funny, very warm and moving intergenerational epic that confirms Adiches virtuosity, boundless empathy and searing social acuity Dave Eggers

An honest novel about race with guts and lustre within the context of a well-crafted, compassionate, visceral and delicately funny tale of lasting high-school love and the sorrows and adventures of immigration Diana Evans, The Times

[A] long, satisfying novel of cross-continental relationships, exile and the pull of home Adichies first novel for seven years and well worth the wait FT

Alert, alive and gripping Independent

Author Bio

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction; and acclaimed story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, received numerous awards and was named one of New York Times Ten Books of the Year. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.