Books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (14)
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A cor do Hibisco by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie PT
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Os limites do mundo da jovem Kambili são definidos pelos muros da luxuosa propriedade da família e pelas regras de um pai repressivo. O dia-a-dia é regulado por horários: rezar, dormir, estudar e rezar ainda mais. A sua vida é privilegiada mas o ambiente familiar é tenso. Quando um golpe militar ameaça fazer desmoronar a Nigéria, o pai de Kambili envia-a, juntamente com o irmão, para casa da tia. É aí, nessa casa cheia de energia e riso, que ela descobre todo um novo mundo onde os livros não são proibidos, os aromas a caril e noz-moscada impregnam o ar, e a alegria dos primos ecoa.Esta visita ... continue
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Algo alrededor de tu cuello by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ES
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, autora ganadora del prestigioso premio Orange con su novela Medio sol amarillo, vuelve al territorio de la ficción con este volumen de cuentos, un libro que revela una voz madura crecida en la realidad de un país como Nigeria.
-Edición especial limitada con prólogo de Paula Bonet-
Conmovedores y profundos, estos relatos cuentan historias humanamente cercanas y geográficamente remotas: historias de mujeres que sufren lejos de su país de origen, historias de emigrantes que se encuentran a sí mismos en Amé... continue
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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WINNER 2013 – National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction FINALIST 2014 – Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction FINALIST 2014 – Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction LONGLISTED 2015 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award A searing new novel, at once sweeping and intimate, by the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun: a story of love and race centered around a man and woman from Nigeria who seemed destined to be together—until the choices they are forced to make tear them apart. Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—left Nigeria 15 years ago, and now studies in Princeton as a Graduate Fellow. ... continue
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Americanah (Spanish Edition) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ES
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Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read. Una original historia sobre la inmigración en Estados Unidos desde el punto de vista de una estudiante de literatura nigeriana. Lagos, mediados de los noventa. En el marco de una dictadura militar y en una Nigeria que ofrece poco o ningún futuro, Ifemelu y Obinze, dos adolescentes atípicos, se enamoran apasionadamente. Como gran parte de su generación, saben que antes o después tendrán que dejar el país. Obinze siempre ha soñado con vivir en Estados Unidos, pero es Ifemelu quien con... continue
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Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend.
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Dream Count : A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Elle, Oprah Daily, Readers Digest, The Seattle Times, LitHub, The Chicago Review of Books, BET, and Radio Times A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, he... continue
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. • Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award. With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works f... continue
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La Flor púrpura by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ES
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Una conmovedora historia en la que la joven y prometedora escritora nigeriana Chimananda Ngozi profundiza en la intolerancia religiosa y en la tiranía familiar, a través de la voz de una adolescente que aspira a vivir su propia vida, con las convulsiones políticas y sociales que sufre Nigeria como telón de fondo. Kambili tiene quince años, su familia está muy bien situada y asiste, junto con su hermano, a una prestigiosa escuela católica. Pero su intransigente padre les hace la vida imposible con sus exigencias de perfección y religiosida... continue
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Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adi... continue
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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father sends her and her brother away to stay with their aunt, a University professor, whose house is noisy and full of laughter. There, Kambili and her brother discover a life and love beyond the confines of their father's authority. The visit will li... continue
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The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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A collection of twelve stories includes the tale of a medical student in hiding with a poor Muslim woman, and a woman who discovers a devastating secret about her brother's death.
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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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Offers an updated definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness.
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Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
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The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a moving short story by the bestselling, award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her equally high-powered lover that she's pregnant, he abandons her. But it's Zikora's demanding, self-possessed mother, in town for the birth, who makes Zikora feel like a lonely little girl all over again. Shunned by the speed with which her ideal life fell apart, Zikora turns to reflecting on her mother's painful past and struggle for dignity. Prepa... continue