Sunday 14 April 2013

What has been on my mind this past week



Ever since I heard about Chimamanda's latest novel getting released, my mind has not been at rest, literally!!!





It's going to be on sale in Lagos from April 21st, 2013 and I'm so looking forward to that day.



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.



Are you as excited as I am?  

12 comments:

  1. hmmm! sounds like a story I would wanna read!!!

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    1. I'm sure we would thoroughly enjoy the novel!!

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  2. Looking forward to the book with the theme that is causing so much controversy already...Adichie is a beautiful writer and I am sure this would be a worthwhile read.

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    1. Yeah, she is a beautiful writer...:)

      Thanks for stopping by Lara.

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  3. i am going to check the book shops in lagos if it is now available. cant wait to read it. love her writing.

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    1. I know it's available at Patabah bookstores, Surulere.

      I love her writing too.

      Thanks for stopping by Ibifiri..:)

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  4. Oh yes, definitely looking forward to the book.

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