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Die große Liebe von Ifemelu und Obinze beginnt im Nigeria der neunziger Jahre. Dann trennen sich ihre Wege: Während die selbstbewusste Ifemelu in Princeton studiert, strandet Obinze als illegaler Einwanderer in London. Nach Jahren kehrt Ifemelu als bekannte Bloggerin von Heimweh getrieben in die brodelnde Metropole Lagos zurück, wo Obinze mittlerweile mit seiner Frau und Tochter lebt. Sie treffen sich wieder und stehen plötzlich vor einer Entscheidung, die ihr Leben auf den Kopf stellt.
Adichie schreibt bewundernswert einfach, grenzenlos empathisch und mit einem scharfen Blick auf die Gesellschaft. Ihr gelingt ein eindringlicher Roman, der Menschlichkeit und Identität eine neue Bedeutung gibt.

'A delicious, important novel' The Times

'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent

'Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both' Guardian

As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze 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.

Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?

Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning 'Americanah' is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today's globalized world.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
27. Februar 2014
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
477
Autor/Autorin
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
346 g
Größe (L/B/H)
196/125/32 mm
ISBN
9780007356348

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE is the author of Purple Hibiscus, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Winner of Winners" award; and Americanah, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her books have been translated into fifty six languages, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and Financial Times. She grew up in Nigeria and divides her time between there and the United States.

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'A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say' Elizabeth Day, Observer

'A delicious, important novel from a writer with a great deal to say' The Times

'A brilliant exploration of being African in America . . . an urgent and important book, further evidence that its author is a real talent' Sunday Telegraph

'An extremely thoughtful, subtly provocative exploration of structural inequality, of different kinds of oppression, of gender roles, of the idea of home. Subtle, but not afraid to pull its punches' Alex Clark, Guardian

'A tour de force . . . The artistry with which Adichie keeps her story moving, while animating the complex anxieties in which the characters live and work, is hugely impressive' Mail on Sunday

'Adichie is terrific on human interactions . . . Adichie's writing always has an elegant shimmer to it . . . Wise, entertaining and unendingly perceptive' Independent on Sunday

'Adichie paints on a grand canvas, boldly and confidently . . . This is a very funny, very warm and moving intergenerational epic that confirms Adiche's virtuosity, boundless empathy and searing social acuity' Dave Eggers

'"An honest novel about race" . . . with guts and lustre . . . within the context of a well-crafted, compassionate, visceral and delicately funny tale of lasting high-school love and the sorrows and adventures of immigration' Diana Evans, The Times

'[A] long, satisfying novel of cross-continental relationships, exile and the pull of home . . . Adichie's first novel for seven years and well worth the wait' FT

'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent

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