Synopsis "Americanah "

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun--the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race, belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for identity and a home. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion--for each other and for their homeland.

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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