Products specifications
Author
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Pub Date
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07/02/2005 |
Binding
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Paperback / softback |
Pages
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336 |
Country
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United Kingdom |
Dewey
|
823 |
GBPPrice
|
8.99 |
Availability
|
Available |
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: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.
When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love - and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family.
This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun', is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred - the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived.