Name: Notes on Grief
SKU: 53339173
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Author: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
ISBN: 9780593320808

Type

Physical Book

Author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher

Knopf

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

18x13x1.3 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9780593320808

Edition No.

Synopsis "Notes on Grief "

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 Adichie's beloved father's death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father's death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he'd stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book--a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment--a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria, 1977) is a Nigerian writer, novelist, playwright. At the age of nineteen, she obtained a scholarship to study communication and political science in Philadelphia. Later, she pursued creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in Portland and earned a master's degree in African studies at Yale University. Her renowned TEDx Talk Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, has become one of the most widely disseminated and read feminist speeches of all time. Currently, she lives between Nigeria and the United States.

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