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Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland – they face the hardest decision of their lives.Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a literary masterpiece, and one of the defining books of the decade.'A love story for our time' VOGUE‘A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say’ OBSERVER'A tour de force. 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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.'I could not put it down’ IRISH TIMES'An intoxicating story that is at once distinctly feminine, African and universal' OBSERVER","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128967823538,"sku":"9780008610012","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008610012.jpg?v=1785658639"},{"product_id":"9780007189885","title":"Purple Hibiscus","description":"**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!**A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author.'A tale for our times' DAILY MAIL‘Immensely powerful’ THE TIMESThe 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.'I could not put it down’ IRISH TIMES'An intoxicating story that is at once distinctly feminine, African and universal' OBSERVER","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201139343538,"sku":"9780007189885","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780007189885.jpg?v=1785658675"},{"product_id":"9780007200283","title":"Half of a Yellow Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e** DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!**\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'‘A literary masterpiece’DAILY MAIL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An immense achievement’OBSERVERIn 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, is in thrall to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister. Amongst the horror of Nigeria’s civil war, loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece is a novel about race, class and the end of colonialism – and the ways in which love can complicate everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Vividly written, thrumming with life … a remarkable novel’ JOYCE CAROL OATES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists’ ELLE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201139540146,"sku":"9780007200283","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780007200283.jpg?v=1785658715"},{"product_id":"9780007356348","title":"Americanah","description":"**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD'A delicious, important novel' THE TIMES'Alert, alive and gripping' INDEPENDENTIfemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. In America, Ifemelu suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Meanwhile, Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland – they face the hardest decision of their lives.Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a literary masterpiece, and one of the defining books of the decade.'A love story for our time' VOGUE‘A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say’ OBSERVER'A tour de force. 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Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland – they face the hardest decision of their lives.Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a literary masterpiece, and one of the defining books of the decade.'A love story for our time' VOGUE‘A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say’ OBSERVER'A tour de force. 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In 'Tomorrow Is Too Far', a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death. The young mother at the centre of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An elegant collection. 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Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are fifteen invaluable suggestions–compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive–for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can \"allow\" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Take note world. 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You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language'On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter's fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.'A work of dignity and of unravelling’ GUARDIAN‘An exquisite howl of pain’ TELEGRAPH","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56221535240565,"sku":"9780008470333","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008470333_03064666-fa7b-4ef6-95c9-38d8f704922e.jpg?v=1785658673"},{"product_id":"9780008550097","title":"Mama’s Sleeping Scarf","description":"A joyful exploration of family life, written by one of the most outstanding contemporary authors of our generation.This beautiful family story follows a young girl called Chino as she plays with her mama’s sleeping scarf through the day. Running with the scarf, Chino weaves together little incidentals of home life into a glorious celebration of the power of a mother-daughter relationship, and the gentle joys that build a perfect day. Exquisitely written with compelling simplicity, this is a heartfelt homage to family love.A compelling debut picture book from one of the most important voices in literature today, brought into glorious technicolour through the vibrant and contemporary illustrations of Joelle Avelino.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56221699572085,"sku":"9780008550097","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008550097_a9ac2249-dd77-40f4-8f73-b6f92534dfc5.jpg?v=1785658755"},{"product_id":"9780008685737","title":"Dream Count","description":"'Magnificent' SUNDAY TIMES‘Extraordinary’ NEW STATESMAN'The return of a literary titan' TELEGRAPHTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA searing, exquisite novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists – the story of four women and their loves, longings and desires.Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. 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We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters:Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professorfull of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who hasabandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm, and Richard, ashy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s wilful twin sister Kainene. Thesecharacters are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imaginedpossible. 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Featuring characters from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s exquisite debut picture book, Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, this gentle and heart-warming story about family, love and spending time together comes from one of the most outstanding contemporary authors of our generation and is illustrated in stunning colour by Joelle Avelino.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420477763957,"sku":"9780008550158","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008550158_97b488b2-c6ca-483a-85d7-59b99a41796b.jpg?v=1786033251"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}