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We Should All Be Feminists
2024 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah.
In this personal, eloquently-argued essay-adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable...
Half of a Yellow Sun
2007 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || HarperCollins
THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’ CHOSEN AS SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB'S BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST 2023 ‘A literary masterpiece’ DAILY MAIL ‘An immense achievement’ OBSERVER ‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer.
And Richard, a shy Englishman,...
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The Thing Around Your Neck
2009 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || HarperCollins
From the Orange Prize-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.
Purple Hibiscus
2023 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || HarperCollins
A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by s...
Americanah / 1st edition
2021 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || HarperCollins
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria.
Self-assured Ifemelu heads for America. But quiet, thoughtful Obinze finds post-9/11 America closed to...
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We moeten allemaal feminist zijn
2016 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || De Bezige Bij || met inkijkexemplaar
In 2013 gaf Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie een TEDx-lezing over wat het betekent om vandaag de dag feminist te zijn. Het filmpje werd bijna drie miljoen keer bekeken en gedeeld, Beyoncé gebruikte een sample van Adichie in een van haar nummers en ook in boekvorm is haar pleidooi een grote bestseller in Amerika en Engeland. Het is geen wonder dat We moeten allemaal feminist zijn zoveel mensen aanspreekt: Chimanada Ngozi Adichie schrijft op humorvolle en toegankelijke wijze en biedt een nieuwe, uniek...