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The Thing Around Your Neck

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(272 Pages)
Product Number: LP2128
Released: 01 Sep, 2009
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ISBN: #9781407440262
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.

Original Publish Date: 01 Sep, 2009

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Narrator(s): Adjoa Andoh
Product Number CX426
Released: 01 Aug, 2009
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781407439655
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Narrator(s): Adjoa Andoh
Product Number D589
Released: 01 Nov, 2009
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781407448435

Professional reviews

"'A major new African voice.' THE INDEPENDENT 'A fiction writer of exceptional talent.' THE TELEGRAPH 'There is an understated beauty to Adichie's deceptively simple prose.' METRO 'If you've read her previous bestsellers, Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus, you will have some idea of the themes running through Adichie's first collection of short stories. She writes about family relationships, political corruption, violence, cultural tradition and the yawning gap between the educated elite of the cities and the ancestor/cult-worshipping villagers of her native Nigeria. But now her scope has widened to take in those expat Nigerians who have left their families at home to live in the US. Some are studying at university, some are supposed to be studying but are instead risking deportation by working illegally to send money home, others have been conveniently 'banished' to large, expensive suburban houses in New Jersey so that their children can have a better education while their 'big men' husbands play the field back in Lagos. Economic and educational migration is rife the world over, but you would look far to find it described as sensitively as in Adichie's often heart-breaking stories of endurance, separation and loss. As for the reading, Adjoa Andoh has read all Adichie's books so far and, for me at least, has become the author's authentic voice.' SUE ARNOLD, THE GUARDIAN 'These 12 stories explore Nigerians' experience of America where, oddly, fat people are poor and the rich are thin, cultures clash and dreams are unfulfilled. Adichie's storytelling and Andoh's narration are so compelling, I miss the characters now the stories are over.' RACHEL REDFORD, THE OBSERVER"

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