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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‎

Purple hibiscus

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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.
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309 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • Unicorn Lovershared an impression6 months ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile

    Beautiful book the description are just wonderful and we are literally watching a character grow. The metaphors are creative. The only struggle was chapter numbers😂

  • Refiloe Masitashared an impression7 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths

    i took time getting into this book. but i honestly loved it, loved the sort of happy ending they all were going to get.

  • Julia Nzuzishared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💀Spooky
    🚀Unputdownable
    💧Soppy

Quotes

  • Alexandra Lavrovahas quoted7 years ago
    I laughed. It sounded strange, as if I were listening to the recorded laughter of a stranger being played back. I was not sure I had ever heard myself laugh.
  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted6 months ago
    Above, clouds like dyed cotton wool hang low, so low I feel I can reach out and squeeze the moisture from them. The new rains will come down soon.

    The end.

  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted6 months ago
    trees in Abba when we come back, and Jaja will plant purple hibiscus, too, and I’ll plant ixora so we can suck the juices of the flowers.” I am laughing. I reach out and place my arm around Mama’s shoulder and she leans toward me and smiles.

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