Purple Hibiscus : a novel / by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Publication details: London : Harper Perennial, 2005.Description: 307 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 0007189885 : (Pbk.)
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | General Collection | 896 ADI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000435200 |
The 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.
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