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Half Of A Yellow Sun / Americanah / Purple Hibiscus: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Three-Book Collection (2014)

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Fourth Estate

review 1: The world was silent when we diedChimamanda is such a great African writer, being raised and brought up in Africa one can easily relate to most of the stories. I like the fact that she tried to connect the African countries by introducing characters like Jomo who is named after our first president of Kenya. This makes you fell part of the book and respect the people who fought for our freedom as Africans. I have never been glued to a book like I did with this one, funny and sad at the same time.“How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?” “"...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the whit... moree man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.”
review 2: I think I liked this book slightly better than her newest novel, Americanah, which I also really enjoyed. However, I felt like I learned so much in this book. It is a topic that I had virtually no knowledge of prior to reading it. This book is about twin sisters Olanna and Kainene and the men in their lives. It alternates between early 1960's and late 1960's...before the war and during the war in Nigeria. Given what is currently going on in Nigeria, it felt like a timely book to be reading. Specifically, it is about the Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970. It is a heartbreaking book, and sometimes what happens in the lives of Olanna and Kainene can be a bit too much like a dramatic soap opera, but overall I found this book to be very interesting and enjoyed learning a little more about the history and culture of Nigeria. less

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