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| Genre/Form: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| ISBN: | 9780007200283 0007200285 |
| OCLC Number: | 263636688 |
| Awards: | Winner of Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. Shortlisted for Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010. Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2007. Shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2007. Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007. |
| Description: | 433 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. |
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'Vividly written, thrumming with life...a remarkable novel. In its compassionate intelligence as in its capacity for intimate portraiture, this novel is a worthy successor to such twentieth-century classics as Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and V. S. Naipaul's "A Bend in the River".' Joyce Carol Oates 'Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers.' Chinua Achebe 'I look with awe and envy at this young woman from Africa who is recording the history of her country. She is fortunate - and we, her readers, are even luckier.' Edmund White 'Absolutely awesome. One of the best books I've ever read.' Judy Finnigan '[Deserves] a place alongside such works as Pat Barker's "Regeneration" trilogy and Helen Dunmore's depiction of the Leningrad blockade, "The Siege".' Guardian Read more...
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