The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Paperback

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Title	The Thing Around Your Neck
Author	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Condition	Almost New
ISBN	0007306210, 9780007306213
Length	217 pages

Who wrote this?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her first novel 'Purple Hibiscus' was published in 2003 and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her second novel 'Half of a Yellow Sun' won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction.

Her short story collection, 'The Thing Around Your Neck', was published to critical acclaim in 2009.

Her work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the BBC Short Story Awards, has appeared in various literary publications, including Zoetrope and The Iowa Review. She won a MacArthur 'genius' grant in 2009, and in 2010 appeared on the New Yorker's list of the best 20 writers under 40.

Her third novel, 'Americanah', was published to widespread critical acclaim in 2013. She lives in Nigeria.

What will I be reading?

These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- the Orange Broadband Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun -- are her most intimate works to date. 

In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the United States. In "A Private Experience," a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman, and the young mother at the centre of "Imitation" finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. 

Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie's prodigious literary powers.

"From the Hardcover edition.