The Thing Around Your Neck - Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Paperback. English. Fourth Estate. 2009. In good condition.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as ¿one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years¿ (Baltimore Sun), with ¿prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes¿ (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her ¿the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe.¿ Her award-winning Half of a Yellow Sun became an instant classic upon its publication three years later, once again putting her tremendous gifts¿graceful storytelling, knowing compassion, and fierce insight into her characters