The Thing Around Your Neck - Couverture souple

Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007306210 ISBN 13 : 9780007306213

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

12 stories from the Orange Prize-winning author of Half Of A Yellow Sun, examining the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. 'The Thing Around Your Neck, with its warm and sympathetic heroines and its finely cadenced un

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than 55 languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Financial Times. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; the essays We Should All Be Feminists, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, and Notes on Grief; and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a book for children. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

From the Orange Prize-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In 'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In 'Tomorrow Is Too Far', a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death.

The young mother at the centre of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007306210
• ISBN 13: 9780007306213
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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