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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- Authors:
- Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda
- Year Published:
- 2005
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780007189885
- Number of Pages:
- 336
- Publication Date:
- 07/02/2005
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:
- 07/02/2005
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9780007189885