American woman
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American woman
19.99 €
The third novel by Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who has already won more than one literary award for her previous books, is the most ambitious in terms of time, geography, and the range of ideas and issues that Adichie has been able to masterfully and engagingly cover. The novel is about how an educated "second world" person feels when he finds himself in the United States or London, and about what awaits him at home if he decides to return. Even as teenagers Ifemelu and Obinze fell in love, and they did not care about the dictatorship in his native country, to the ominous atmosphere of general depression and fear. But after graduating from school, the beautiful Ifemelu went to study in America, where a new world awaited her, full of both joys and unfamiliar problems. She gradually settles in this country, succeeds and fails, makes relationships and loses them, and her home seems more and more distant. Judicious Obinze from a professor's family was going to follow his beloved, but the events of September 11 put an end to his plans to move to America. He finds himself in London, where he leads a dangerous life as an illegal immigrant. Years go by, and now Obinze is a rich man, living in his native country, where he is appreciated and respected. And Ifemelu has become a successful journalist, her blog about the life of an immigrant in America is extremely popular. It would seem that everything is going well for both of them, but this is only the beginning... A fascinating, bitter, in some places funny novel that spans three continents and many destinies, calling to mind not only Adichie's previous novel Half of a Yellow Sun, but also Abraham Verghese's Dissecting Stone and Khaled Hosseini's And the Echo Flies over the Mountains. Perhaps the main conversation in this novel is about how the idea of homeland and home lives and changes in us, about the nuances of partings and returns. In 2013, the novel won one of the most prestigious literary awards in the United States, the National Book Critics Circle Award, beating out Donna Tartt's The Chegle.
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