THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'WINNER OF WINNERS' Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister.
As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race - and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
作者简介
奇玛曼达-恩格齐-阿迪切(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)著有入围布克奖候选名单的《紫木槿》(Purple Hibiscus)、获得橙色小说奖的《半轮黄日》(Half of a Yellow Sun)以及广受好评的故事集《你脖子上的东西》(The Thing Around Your Neck)。2013年,《Americanah》在全球出版,获奖无数,并被《纽约时报》评为年度十大图书之一。作为麦克阿瑟基金会奖学金的获得者,她常年往返于美国和尼日利亚之间。
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction; and acclaimed story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, received numerous awards and was named one of New York Times Ten Books of the Year. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
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