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The Thing Around Your Neck

Af: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Engelsk Paperback

The Thing Around Your Neck

Af: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Engelsk Paperback
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**Pre-order DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie now!**From the Women''s 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.''Makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong’ TELEGRAPH''Writing of clarity and brilliance'' GUARDIANIn ''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.‘An elegant collection. From beginning to end the prose is serene and the characterization deft’ TLS
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**Pre-order DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie now!**From the Women''s 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.''Makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong’ TELEGRAPH''Writing of clarity and brilliance'' GUARDIANIn ''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.‘An elegant collection. From beginning to end the prose is serene and the characterization deft’ TLS
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 300
ISBN-13: 9780007306213
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0007306210
Udg. Dato: 3 sep 2009
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 130mm
Højde: 196mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 3 sep 2009
Forfatter(e): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Forfatter(e) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Kategori United States of America, USA


ISBN-13 9780007306213


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 300


Udgave


Længde 16mm


Bredde 130mm


Højde 196mm


Udg. Dato 3 sep 2009


Oplagsdato 3 sep 2009


Forlag HarperCollins Publishers