Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high
walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see
from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although
generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and
fanatically religious at home. Her life is lived under his shadow
and regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer.
She lives in fear of his violence, and the words in her textbooks
begin to turn to blood in front of her eyes.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's
father, involved in mysterious ways with the unfolding political
crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to their aunt's. The
house is noisy and full of laughter. Here she discovers love and a
life - dangerous and heathen - beyond the confines of her father's
authority. The visit will lift the silence from her world and, in
time, reveal a terrible, bruising secret at the heart of her family
life.
This first novel is about the promise of freedom; about the blurred
lines between the old gods and the new; between childhood and
adulthood; between love and hatred. An extraordinary debut,
Purple Hibiscus is a compelling novel which captures both a
country and an adolescence at a time of tremendous change.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Thing Around Your Neck
$24.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
The first work from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie since her bestselling, prize-winning and phenomenally successful Richard and Judy pick HALF OF A YELLOW SUN. Told with the vividness and insight that make her novels exception... Buy or find out more →
Half Of A Yellow Sun (Audio CD)
$40.00 – Compact disc / Harper Collins
Set in Nigeria during the 1960s‚ at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.
The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during ... Buy or find out more →
Half Of A Yellow Sun
$19.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
Set in Nigeria during the 1960s‚ at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.
The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during ... Buy or find out more →
Purple Hibiscus
$22.95 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected i... Buy or find out more →
Purple Hibiscus
$16.99 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
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 fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, st... Buy or find out more →
The Thing Around Your Neck
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals including Granta, and won the International PEN/David Wong award in 2003. Purple Hibiscus, her first novel, ... Buy or find out more →
