· So we are reminded by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's engaging third novel Americanah is social satire masquerading as romantic comedy. There is mocking, but not without love beyond race, the book is about the immigrant's quest: Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Americanah is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s award-winning novel about a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States where she struggles with racism, relationships, and identity. The novel also follows her love story with Obinze. Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today’s globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s most powerful and astonishing novel bltadwin.ru:
Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah is about a young Nigerian woman who moves to the U.S. It's a story of relocation, far-flung love and life as an outsider. But reviewer Rosecrans Baldwin says that. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah is a book that manages to do both. It is ostensibly a love story - the tale of childhood sweethearts at school in Nigeria whose lives take different paths. Americanah is both intellectually expansive and urgently intimate, a story about the crushing experience of finding your way in a new land — and the physical and emotional lengths one goes to [in order] to feel whole again." The Seattle Times "Adichie's great gift is that she has always brought us into the territory of the previously.
Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today’s globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s most powerful and astonishing novel yet. So we are reminded by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's engaging third novel Americanah is social satire masquerading as romantic comedy. There is mocking, but not without love beyond race, the book is about the immigrant's quest: self-invention, which is the American subject. "Gorgeous for all the significant subjects that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tackles, Americanah’s structure is an old-fashioned, deeply satisfying one: a love story about two people who are meant to be together, but [whom] life contrives to keep apart.
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