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By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY S WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.

From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.

As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?

Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning ‘Americanah’ is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world.

“Actress Adjoa Andoh brings to life Adichie’s complex, beautifully wrought novel – which is both a love story and a nuanced analysis of political topics including systemic racism in America; immigration in the UK; and the class system in Nigeria.” VOGUE

“One of the previous decade’s landmark novels… Andoh is a skilled, exciting narrator.” THE TIMES©2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2013 W F Howes Ltd African American Genre Fiction Political Women's Fiction
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"Andoh's rich voice and distinct characters and rhythm keep the listener engrossed.... Andoh has fun adopting a mocking lilt for Ifemelu's snarky blog entries.... [and] a more serious tone brings authenticity to the heartbreak of Obinze's London experience." (AudioFile)
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This story is so well written and Adichie is a true wizard of words. Especially though provoking in these times.

Spellbound.

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J'ai acheté ce livre après avoir lu et adoré "half of a rising sun". C'est encore un très beau roman, différent du premier mais tout aussi riche et juste, et très bien porté par la lectrice.

Un beau roman

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So powerful. She Real knows how to put down on paper the aliénation you can feel from seeing the world differently than others. I'm white, can't relate to racisme. But i lived abroad for a long time and the difficulty of returning home, that strikes a cord big time

powerful

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Ce livre est excellent ! l'histoire de cette jeune femme est racontée avec une subtilité extraordinaire, et d'une envie de lire tous les romans de son auteur.

le meilleur livre que j'ai lu depuis longtemps !

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It goes into depth about so many topics that I have lived as a young black woman who’s mother is an immigrant in an occidental country. Every characters are different not stereotypical or cliche and I love it I recognized some of my friends / family members and myself in this book. I even noted some of the book quote in here to put on my to read list.

An new way of understanding a different world for me

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