Her novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Broadband Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book and a People Best Book of the Year her novel Americanah won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Purple Hibiscus, her first novel, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.

Henry Prize Stories 2003, the New Yorker, Granta, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The O. Adichie's understanding of a young girl's heart is so acute that her story ultimately rises above its setting and makes her little part of Nigeria seem as close and vivid as Eudora Welty's Mississippi.' - The Boston Globe 'Amazing.' - Minneapolis Star TribuneĪbout the Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Adichie is very much the twenty-first-century daughter of that other great Igbo novelist, Chinua Achebe.' - The Washington Post Book World 'The author's straightforward prose captures the tragic riddle of a man who has made an unquestionably positive contribution to the lives of strangers while abandoning the needs of those who are closest to him.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes. Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins' laughter rings throughout the house. As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father's authority. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home-a home that is silent and suffocating.

Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. About the Book A promising new voice from Nigeria delivers an exquisite and powerful first novel about a 15-year-old Nigerian woman who is awakening at a time when both her country and family are on the cusp of change.įrom the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria.

Purple hibiscus novel by chimamanda