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| Genre/forme : | Historical fiction Political fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Format physique additionnel : | Online version: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- Half of a yellow sun. London : Fourth Estate, c2006 (OCoLC)607732475 |
| Type d’ouvrage : | Fiction |
| Format : | Livre |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| ISBN : | 0007225342 9780007225347 0007200277 9780007200276 9966983686 9789966983688 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 225851591 |
| Prix : | Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007. |
| Description : | 433 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsabilité : | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. |
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Praise for 'Purple Hibiscus': 'Immensely powerful.' Times 'An intoxicating story that is at once distinctly feminine, African and universal.' Observer '"Purple Hibiscus" is a beautifully judged account of the private intimate stirrings of a young girl faced with the familiar public obscenities of tyrannical power, and Adichie is a fresh new voice out of Africa.' Daily Telegraph 'A sensitive and touching story of a child exposed too early to religious intolerance and the uglier side of the Nigerian state.' J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'This is the best new novel to have come out of Africa in some years. Like its young protagonist, it is a work of undemonstrative but rare feeling and intelligence; and it gives us one of the most fascinating and perturbing patriarchs of recent literature. But its special magic lies in conveying that, however devastated a childhood might be, it still has an unrepeatable, dream-like quality.' Amit Chaudhuri '"Purple Hibiscus" is the best debut I've read since Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things".' Jason Cowley, Times journalist, literary editor of the New Statesman Lire la suite...
