Americanah

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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, Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today s globalized world. New Read Kindle ePUB Americanah author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – kino-fada.fr One of the best books I ve read in 2013 Americanah is a book of great impact and importance This is the one book by an African writer that has spoken to methan any other.This is a book about Africa and the African diasporic experience in the USA and England, a backdrop for the love story between Ifemelu and Obinze, teenagers attending a Nigerian university who have to leave the country because of the university strikes in Nigeria Ifemelu moves to the States, where she attends an Ameri One of the best books I ve read in 2013 Americanah is a book of great impact and importance This is the one book by an African writer that has spoken to methan any other.This is a book about Africa and the African diasporic experience in the USA and England, a backdrop for the love story between Ifemelu and Obinze, teenagers attending a Nigerian university who have to leave the country because of the university strikes in Nigeria Ifemelu moves to the States, where she attends an American university and starts a blog dealing with race issues in America, while Obinze moves to England and ends up becoming an illegal immigrant The book examines the intricacies of race, especially in the USA, as well as the issue of immigration It talks about the difference between being black in Africa and being black in the States Adichie is seamless as she goes from country to country, from American to Nigerian, to Francophone Af...UPDATE Now with irritating author interview See end of review.Those of you who know me know I don t really have favorite authors I have favorite books, occasionally favorite series So you won t be surprised that after I thought Half of a Yellow Sun was amazing and Purple Hibiscus and The Thing Around Your Neck fairly good, I m giving 2 stars edit 1 star to Adichie s latest Typical But really, yikes This isn t even a novel it s a 477 page opinion essay with some characters thrown in.Re UPDATE Now with irritating author interview See end of review.Those of you who know me know I don t really have favorite authors I have favorite books, occasionally favorite series So you won t be surprised that after I thought Half of a Yellow Sun was amazing and Purple Hibiscus and The Thing Around Your Neck fairly good, I m giving 2 stars edit 1 star to Adichie s latest Typical But really, yikes This isn t even a novel it s a 477 page opinion essay with some characters thrown in.Read the blurb and you ll be told Americanah is about a pair of star crossed lovers from Nigeria, Ifemelu and Obinze, following their adventures as immigrants in the U.S and U.K respectively Technically that s in the book, but Americanah is really a...In Nigeria, we are brought up on foreign movies, sitcoms and TV shows, foreign books and foreign news We know how English should be spoken, and many of us who bother to read a lot are very familiar with the colloquialisms of the west.This is perhaps why we do not recognize how much we miss our own particularly Nigerian way of expression in the literature we read It is perhaps why, when we read a phrase that is essentially Nigerian, in a novel like AmericanahTina Tina, how now Why are y In Nigeria, we are brought up on foreign movies, sitcoms and TV shows, foreign books and foreign news We know how English should be spoken, and many of us who bother...A few weeks ago I read The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie s short story collection, and was immediately struck with her attention to detail in stories as short as six pages long Desiringof her captivating prose, I chose Americanah, her intricate discussion on race in three countries and continents Taking place in Nigeria, the United States, and England, Americanah can be viewed by many as a novel that is one of the premier looks on race over the last five years Ifemelu A few weeks ago I read The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie s short story collection, and was immediately struck with her attention to detail in stories as short as six pages long Desiringof her captivating prose, I chose Americanah, her intricate discussion on race in three countries and continents Taking place in Nigeria, the United States, and England, Americanah can be viewed by many as a novel that is one of the premier looks on race over the last five years Ifemelu and Obinze met in secondary school i...There s a lot going on here This book is a beautiful mess Adichie takes on race, immigration and emigration, the politics of natural hair, interracial relationships, what it means to leave home, and what it means to return, all wrapped up in a love story The book is, at points, indulgent, just on and on the writing goes, the writer showing off her admittedly impressive way with words Stronger editing would have done wonders f...Americanah is a love story, not the kind of love stories I grew up reading, those with really beautiful women and handsome tall guys In fact, the lovers in this one aren t too attractive, but their love is Their love is beautiful, but then it is tried, beaten, stretched, yet it endures and gets stronger.Okay, love aside America...this is basically what was going through my head for most of the book AAAAAAAAHHHHH and then,quietly in the background, under the shrieking why haven t i read this before now because i was an early adopter of adichie i read Purple Hibiscus back when it was her only novel, and i pounced on Half of a Yellow Sun as soon as it was published and it immediately rose to the very top of my heart pile of favorite books ever and then this came out and i just dallied i bought it the we this is basically what was going through my head for most of the book AAAAAAAAHHHHH and then,quietly in the background, under the shrieking why haven t i read this before now because i was an early adopter of adichie i read Purple Hibiscus back when it was her only novel, and i p...What is it with you Americans and race my friend Fatima asked me one day over lunch We were in her country, France, both students at a university tucked in a shadow of an Alpine peak Everyone always wanted to know where I was from I d tell them France and they d say, no, where are you from It made no sense I was born in France I m French Fatima, with her brown sugar skin and currant black eyes, then turned to her boyfriend Karim and Arabic poured from her in a river of throaty conson What is it with you Americans and race my friend Fatima asked me one day over lunch We were in her country, France, both students at a university tucked in a shadow of an Alpine peak Everyone always wanted to know where I was from I d tell them France and they d say, no, where are you from It made no sense I was born in France I m French Fatima, with her brown sugar skin and currant black eyes, then turned to her boyfriend Karim and Arabic poured from her in a river of throaty consonants and chewy vowels A few years later, at graduate school in the Midwest, my friend James, a PhD student from Uganda, told me he didn t know he was black until he came to the United States We were talking about the curious strain in his African Studies ...Everyone should read this book.Adichie has really hit her stride in this one After having read and adored her previous works, I knew I would love this one, and it didn t disappoint It is by far her best work, and you can see the progression of her writing skill in Americanah.Characters are what Adichie does best Her books become progressively less plot driven, but her ability to engage the reader with flawed, true characters is where she excels Ifemelu is brazen and perhaps, to some, unlikea Everyone should read this book.Adichie has really hit her stride in this one After having read and adored her previous works, I knew I would love this one, and it didn t disappoint It is by far her best work, and you can s...Warning I love being part of the crowd, and the crowd is mostly all gushy about this book But seriously, I wish I had walked away from it I really wanted to like it, I really did.This was the longest book of my life 610 Kindle pages that felt like 1,000 I would be reading along and thinking, oh, I m a little bored, let s see how far I ve gotten.and I d look down at the bottom of my Kindle page and see that the progress bar hadn t moved an iota 17 percent, really I ve read all that, Warning I love being part of the crowd, and the crowd is mostly all gushy about this book But seriously, I wish I had walked away from it I really wanted to like it, I really did.This was the longest book of my life 610 Kindle pages that felt like 1,000 I would be reading along and thinking, oh, I m a little bored, let s see how far I ve gotten.and I d look down at the bottom of my Kindle page...

Americanah
  • English
  • 08 September 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 477 pages
  • 0307271080
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Americanah