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Knopf
June 2009
On Sale: June 16, 2009
240 pages
ISBN: 0307271072
EAN: 9780307271075
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Non-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);
The Washington Post called her “the twenty-first-century
daughter of Chinua Achebe.” Her award-winning Half of a
Yellow Sun became an instant classic upon its publication
three years later, once again putting her tremendous gifts—
graceful storytelling, knowing compassion, and fierce
insight into her characters’ hearts—on display. Now, in her
most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, 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. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a
violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and
faith force her to confront the realities and fears she’s
been pushing away. In “Tomorrow is Too Far,” a woman
unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother’s
death. The young mother at the center of “Imitation” finds
her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she
learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their
Lagos home. And the title story depicts the choking
loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that
turns out to be nothing like the country she expected;
though falling in love brings her desires nearly within
reach, a death in her homeland forces her to reexamine them. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and
longing, these stories map, with Adichie’s signature
emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the
deeply human struggle to reconcile them. The Thing Around
Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious
literary powers of one of our most essential writers.
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