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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY’S WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION‘A delicious, important novel’ The Times‘Alert, alive and gripping’ Independent‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.’ GuardianChimamanda Ngozi Adichie has firmly established herself as one of the world’s most exciting and important young writers – a regular award-winner, ‘endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers’ (Chinua Achebe).A gripping, vividly written masterpiece, ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ won the Orange Prize for Fiction. The lives of Ugwu, a young boy from a poor village, Olanna, a middle class woman, and Richard, a white man and a writer intersect in intimate and unexpected ways during the vicious Nigerian civil war. This is a story about Africa, about moral responsibility, the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race – and about how love can move in to complicate all these things.Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, ‘Americanah’ is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world. Ifemelu and Obinze fell in love as teenagers in Lagos. Thriteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria; Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer in America. When Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and the pair reignite their shared passions – for their homeland and for each other – they face the toughest decisions of their lives.‘Purple Hibiscus’ is a compelling tale of adolescence, set against the backdrop of Nigeria’s military coup. Fifteen-year-old Kambili’s life is regulated by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive father. However when Nigeria begins to fall apart, Kambili and her brother are sent to live in their aunt’s laughter-filled house, where they discover life, love, and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family.

In an election season widely seen as stranger than fiction, we decided to turn to fiction to see how it might illuminate today’s befuddling political climate. For the first time ever, the Book Review has commissioned an original short story. The assignment: Write anything about this election season you like. The result, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Arrangements,” on our cover this week, updates Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” — with Melania Trump as Clarissa.

In an email interview, Adichie, whose novel “Americanah” was one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2013, said Woolf’s novel “both criticizes, and is also complicit in, a certain kind of conservative class-privileged England, and I like to think this story has the same general spirit.”

Adichie’s interest began with Ivanka Trump, who “seems to me too thoughtful and too intelligent to truly believe that her father’s erratic, ungrounded policy positions would genuinely be good for the United States. And so I imagined her as a kind of unknowable character, and I needed a foil of sorts for her, which is how Melania Trump became the center of the story.”

“Fiction can remind us — and because of the blood-sport nature of politics, we constantly need reminding — that the players in politics are first human beings,” Adichie said.

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.
In 'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away.
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.
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images.
And yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view: one that details the realities and contradictions of patriotism, examines the role of class and privilege in Nigerian society, juxtaposes inherited tradition with the diasporic experience and explores the power of storytelling and its intrinsic link to Nigeria's history.
Within these pages, acclaimed and award-winning writers share memories and experiences of Nigeria that can be found nowhere else, bringing to the fore a country whose influence can be found everywhere.
Powerful, lyrical and entirely unforgettable, Of This Our Country weaves together a living portrait of Nigeria, one that is as beautiful as it is complex.

Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece
This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.
The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character.
As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

Mehr Feminismus! Der legendare TED-Talk und vier neue Stories von Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Die junge Bestsellerautorin Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie machte mit ihrem TED-Talk ›We Should All Be Feminists‹ (dt.: ›Mehr Feminismus!‹) Furore. Popsangerin Beyonce Knowles sampelte einige Passagen daraus in ihrem Song ›Flawless‹. Mehr als 1,5 Millionen User sahen ihn im Netz, hier liegt er nun zum Nachlesen vor; gemeinsam mit vier neuen Stories, die Adichie einmal mehr als Erzahlerin von Weltrang zeigen.
Mit ihren Geschichten gelingt ihr, was nur gro?e Literatur vermag: Minutios legt sie das Innerste ihrer Figuren blo? und enthullt damit Wahrheiten unserer Gesellschaft, die so offenkundig sind, dass wir sie kaum jemals durchschauen. Adichie erzahlt davon, wie man Rollenerwartungen erlernt, und davon, wie man lernt, sie zu brechen. Sie erzahlt von Schuld, Scham und Sexualitat, von Feminismus, Liebe und Heimat. Uber all ihren Geschichten liegt der helle Schimmer einer besseren, einer toleranteren Welt. Adichie ist eine hellwache Beobachterin unserer Zeit und ihre Stories sind eine literarische Offenbarung.