Record Number |
705498 |
ISBN |
9781471241116 (pbk.) : |
Author |
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- author. |
Title |
Americanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. |
Publisher/Date |
Rearsby, Leicester W F Howes Ltd, 2013. |
Pagination etc. |
730 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. |
Contents note |
Published by W.F. Howes Ltd under the Clipper imprint. |
Originally published: London: Fourth Estate. |
Summary Note |
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. |
Subject |
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
Immigrants -- Fiction |
Refugees -- Fiction |
Nigerians -- United States -- Fiction |
Nigerians -- England -- Fiction |
Nigeria -- History -- 1960-Fiction |
Large type books |
Shelf Location |
LP ADIC |