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Knopf
May 2013
On Sale: May 16, 2013
400 pages
ISBN: 0307271080
EAN: 9780307271082
Kindle: B00A9ET4MC
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Contemporary | Fiction Family Life
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow
Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race
centered 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 a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze
fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship,
and people are leaving the country if they can.
Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—departs for America to
study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses
relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the
weight of something she never thought of back home: race.
Obinze—the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor—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. Years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic
Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of
an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu
returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared
passion—for their homeland and for each other—they will face
the toughest decisions of their lives. Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender,
spanning three continents and numerous lives,
Americanah is a richly told story set in today’s
globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s most powerful
and astonishing novel yet.
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