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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); The Washington Post called her "the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe." "There are a couple of pieces that aren't as strong as the rest, but on the whole, this is a very solid collection, with several exquisite stories that will take you to places you didn't know existed." - Seattle TimesNow, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. "Like most of us - but perhaps more so - Adichie’s imagination seems fired by nostalgia for a lost childhood world at least as much as by the challenges of the ever-moving present tense that has swept it so unceremoniously, irretrievably away." - Ben Dickinson, ElleSearing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and long

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Author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher

Fourth Estate; imusti

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780008205232

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

4.18 / 5 (77 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14