Brilliant." - San Francisco Chronicle "A very funny, very warm and moving intergenerational epic that confirms Adichie's virtuosity, boundless empathy and searing social acuity." -Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King "Masterful.
Funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise. and the UK, raising universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for identity and a home." -Barack Obama "Dazzling. (From Vintage Canada)Ĭhimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian-American author whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction.Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction "From one of the world's great contemporary writers comes the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. As they revisit their shared passion -for their homeland and for each other -they must face the largest challenges of their lives.Ī searing novel, at once sweeping and intimate, by the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun: a story of love and race centred around a man and woman from Nigeria who seemed destined to be together - until the choices they are forced to make tear them apart. Obinze is the kind of successful "Big Man" he'd scorned in his youth, and Ifemelu has become an "Americanah" - a different version of her former self, one with a new accent and attitude.
Years later, when they reunite in Nigeria, neither is the same person who left home. Ifemelu - beautiful, self-assured - left Nigeria 15 years ago, and now studies in Princeton as a Graduate Fellow. Obinze -handsome and kind-hearted - was Ifemelu's teenage love he'd hoped to join her in America, but post 9/11 America wouldn't let him in.
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