
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
£9.99
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A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author.
‘A tale for our times’ DAILY MAIL
‘Immensely powerful’ THE TIMES
The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.
When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili’s father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love – and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family.
This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred – the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived.
‘I could not put it down’ IRISH TIMES
‘An intoxicating story that is at once distinctly feminine, African and universal’ OBSERVER
Publisher Review
'A beautiful and often harrowing story.' Observer Books of the Year '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 'Political brutality and domestic violence, religion and witchcraft all merge with subtle force in this memorable novel. Chimammanda Ngozi Adichie uses childhood innocence to write Nigerian history with the eye of a family insider.' Hugo Hamilton '"Purple Hibiscus" is the best debut I've read since Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things".' Jason Cowley, Literary Editor of the New Statesman 'This debut ensnares the reader from the first page and lingers in the memory...in soft, searing voice, Adichie examines the complexities of family, faith and country through the haunted but hopeful eyes of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood.' Publishers Weekly
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