Tuesday 26 March 2013

AMERICANAH By Chimamanda Adichie COMING SOON

A new book by award winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will soon hit the book shelves with a thud.In just a few days, her new novel “Americanah” will be released in Australia,1st of April 2013, in the UK, 11th April 2013, the US will be on 14th of May 2013. Release date for Nigeria has not been confirmed yet. I personally anticipate the "coming of AMERICANAH" but for now here's a brief insight on the story line.

As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?
Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, ‘Americanah’ is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world.

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