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Purple Hibiscus
Contributor(s): Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (Author)

ISBN: 1616202416 ISBN-13: 9781616202415
Publisher: Algonquin Books

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2012

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | African American - General

Dewey: FIC

Lexile Measure: 920(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" L (0.55 lbs) 336 pages

Features: Ikids, Price on Product

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 75661
Reading Level: 5.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 13.0

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Publisher Description:

From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists

Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home--a home that is silent and suffocating.

As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father's authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins' laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.

Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.

Contributor Bio(s): Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003, the New Yorker, Granta, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. Purple Hibiscus, her first novel, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Broadband Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book and a People Best Book of the Year; her novel Americanah won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, was the winner of the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A recipient of a 2008 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

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