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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’ Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece
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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…
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A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend.
From the award-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun,’ a powerful story of love, race and identity.
Katlin Sarantou
The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist and prominent feminist, in a simple, age-appropriate way…
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First presented as a TED Talk given in the United Kingdom at TEDxEuston, in 2012 –Title page verso.
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The first collection of interviews with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Covering fifteen years of conversations, the interviews start with the publication of Adichie’s first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), and end in…
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Americanah features explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols including: the importance of authenticity; race and racism; the male peacock; reading and novels; lies; and hair.
A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural existence.
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…
A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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'A delicious, important novel' The Times 'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent 'A love story for our time' Vogue
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A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.
A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.
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Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure…
Andrzej Szczypiorski
A rediscovered W&N classic, with a new introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Seiringer-Gaubinger Christina
In the twenty-first century, interculturality has become an omnipresent term. We passed the understanding of cultures merely existing next to each other, in order to adopt a more open perspective…
Tochi Onyebuchi
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. When Did You First Realize You Were Black? Provoked by the fraught relationship between the African continent and American culture in Chimamanda Ngozi…
Translation of: Dear Ijeawele, or, A feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche tells the evocative story of 15-year old Kambili’s life growing up in Nigeria during a military coup. This set text for AQA GCSE is an ideal reader…
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Translation of: The danger of a single story.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
First presented as a TED Talk given in the United Kingdom at TEDxEuston, in 2012.
A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected.
A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to starta new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected.
In her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie ( Purple Hibiscus ) turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in 12 dazzling stories that…
This is a slightly expanded version of a letter written by the author as a Facebook post on October 12, 2016 –Title page verso.
From the award-winning author of Purple Hibiscus comes this masterly, haunting new novel, in which Adichie recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an…
A promising new voice from Nigeria delivers an exquisite and powerful first novel about a 15-year-old Nigerian woman who is awakening at a time when both her country and family…
A joyful exploration of family life, written by one of the most outstanding contemporary authors of our generation.
Daniela Muscat & Stephanie Xerri Agius
Daniela Muscat and Stephanie Xerri Agius’ THE ROAD TO FREEDOM is a student friendly approach to studying Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. The authors of this Study Guide have fi…
Amara Diabate
La presente etude aborde la question de l'ecriture de la diaspora chez les ecrivains que la critique nomme les nouveaux auteurs, precisement chez l'ecrivaine d'origine nigeriane Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Elle…
Djamila Ribeiro
The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil
Binyavanga Wainaina
From one of Africa's most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality
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Chinua Achebe
Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Achebe’s African Trilogy: Things Fall…
From the award-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun,’ a powerful story of love, race and identity
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Jhumpa Lahiri
Twenty-three short stories give a world tour of fiction, from both established and up-and-coming authors.
Chino loves the scarf her mother ties around her hair at night, and takes it on endless adventures during the day as a reminder of the ones she loves.
Issue56 delivers new work from Michelle Tea, Jose Antonio Vargas, T. C. Boyle,Dantiel W. Moniz, Genevieve Hudson, Jincy Willett, to name a few, and asection of staggering…
The first children's book from the best-selling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah-a tender story about a little girl's love for her mother's scarf, and the adventures…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Jenny Minton Quigley
The O. Henry Prize stories 2021 Gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from the thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year.
