The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.
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The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.
When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili’s father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love – and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family.
This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred – the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.24 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.1 cm |
| Book_author | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngoz |
| Publisher | 4th Estate |
| Imprint | 4th Estate |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 307 |
| Language | English |
| Dewey | 823.92 (edition:22) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |