Americanah

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**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!** WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD **DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!** WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD 'A delicious, important novel' THE TIMES 'Alert, alive and gripping' INDEPENDENT Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. In America, Ifemelu suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Meanwhile, Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland – they face the hardest decision of their lives. Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a literary masterpiece, and one of the defining books of the decade. 'A love story for our time' VOGUE ‘A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say’ OBSERVER 'A tour de force. Hugely impressive' MAIL ON SUNDAY

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY\'S WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.From the award-winning author of \'Half of a Yellow Sun,\' a powerful story of love, race and identity.As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning \'Americanah\' is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today\'s globalized world.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Auteur) - Verschenen op 01/02/2014 bij Harper Collins Libri

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Pages: 496, Edition: 01, Paperback, Harper Collins UK