Books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A delicious, important novel' The Times'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent'Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.' GuardianAs 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.

A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.'I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently...'What does "e;feminism"e; mean today?In this personal, eloquently argued essay - adapted from her much-admired Tedx talk of the same name - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman now - an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.

Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. Now available as a digital download. This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend.I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing. What matters is that you try.In We Should All be Feminists, her eloquently argued and much admired essay of 2014, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie proposed that if we want a fairer world we need to raise our sons and daughters differently. Here, in this remarkable new book, Adichie replies by letter to a friend's request for help on how to bring up her newborn baby girl as a feminist. With its fifteen pieces of practical advice it goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century.

Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the 2004 Orange PrizeA haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer.The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer.When Nigeria begins to fall apart during a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to live with their aunt. In this house, full of energy and laughter, she discovers life and love - and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family.Centring on the promise of freedom and the pain and exhilaration of adolescence, Purple Hibiscus is the extraordinary debut of a remarkable new talent.

A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language'On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter's fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.

From the Orange Prize-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.In 'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away.In 'Tomorrow Is Too Far', a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death.The young mother at the centre of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home.And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them.Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.

Ugwu arbejder som houseboy for en universitetsprofessor fuld af revolutionær ildhu; Olanna, professorens unge elskerinde, har efterladt sit privilegerede liv i Lagos til fordel for en støvet landsby og sin elskers charme; og Richard, en genert, ung englænder er forblændet af Olannas egenrådige tvillingesøster, Kainene. Da borgerkrigen bryder ud, bliver de hver især ofre for hændelser, der sønderflænger deres tilværelse og sætter såvel deres tilværelse som deres loyalitet under pres.En halv gul sol er en storslået roman om kolonialismens endeligt, etniske tilhørsforhold, klasse og race, og om, hvordan kærligheden kan komplicere alting.

Femtenårige Kambili vokser op i Nigeria i sin velstående fars kvælende skygge. Faren er en politisk aktiv og højt respekteret forretningsmand, men også dybt religiøs og styrer sin familie med jernhånd. Da Nigeria rystes af et militærkup, bliver Kambili sendt væk for at bo hos sin faster. Her, i et hjem fuld af larm og latter opdager hun livet og kærligheden – og en frygtelig og knusende familiehemmelighed. Lilla hibiscus er en gribende roman om en familie i opløsning og en ung piges ønske om en bedre verden for sig selv og sine nærmeste.

Ifemelu og Obinze er unge og forelskede, da de flygter fra det militærstyrede Nigeria. Ifemelu rejser til USA og må for første gang i sit liv slås med spørgsmålet om, hvad det vil sige at være sort. Obinze har planer om at rejse efter Ifemelu, men på grund af terrorangrebet den 11. september nægtes han adgang til USA. I stedet bliver han kastet ud i et farligt og illegalt liv i London.Femten år senere er Obinze en velstående forretningsmand i det nye, demokratiske Nigeria, og Ifemelu har fået succes i USA som forfatter. Men har de efter så mange års adskillelse modet til at mødes igen? Americanah er en smuk og kraftfuld historie om race og identitet, om udødelig kærlighed og om at finde hjem til sidst.

Fra forfatteren til En halv gul sol og Americanah kommer tolv spektakulære noveller. Adichie kaster et gennemborende blik på de bånd, der knytter kvinder og mænd. forældre og børn, Nigeria og Vesten sammen; om kærlighed og sammenbrud, vold og tro og de øjeblikke af pludselig indsigt, der kaster lys over skønheden og desperationen i helt almindelige liv.

10. juni 2020 døde Chimamanda Adichies far, James, pludseligt i Nigeria. I dette fintmærkende og stærke erindringsværk, mindes hans datter, en erklæret ’fars pige’, sin elskede far. Noter om sorg er en hyldest til et levet liv, en fortælling om en datters uforbeholdne kærlighed til en forælder og et studie i forskellige former for tab, og i sorgens natur.Bogen er en udvidet og bearbejdet version af en tekst bragt i The New Yorker. Lysende. The Times, UKSkarp, kærlig og rå. Los Angeles TimesDybt gribende … en enestående læseoplevelse. AftonbladetChimamanda Ngozi Adichie debuterede med romanen Lilla hibiscus. Opfølgeren En halv gul sol vandt the Orange Prize (nu the Women’s Prize for Fiction) og blev i 2020 udråbt som deres ”Winner of winners”, den bedste roman til at have modtaget prisen i de 25 år, den er blevet uddelt. Romanen Americanah vandt US National Book Critics Circle Award, og novellesamlingen Det du har om halsen samt de to essays Vi burde alle være feminister og Brev til en nybagt forælder: Et feministisk manifest i femten punkter har allerede status af moderne klassikere. Hun er modtager af et MacArthur Fellowship og deler sin tid mellem USA og Nigeria.

Chimananda Ngozi Adichie modtog for et par år siden et brev fra en barndomsveninde, der spurgte hende, hvordan hun kunne opdrage sin datter feministisk. Brev til en nybagt forælder er Adichies svar med femten råd til den nybagte forælder. Adichies råd er en nuanceret og kærlighedsfuld påmindelse om, hvor vigtigt det er, at vi tager ansvar for de værdier, vi giver videre til den næste generation.

I dette personlige og velargumenterede essay, der stammer fra Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie meget anerkendte Ted talk af samme navn, præsenterer hun læseren for en unik definition af feminisme i det 21. århundrede. Hun trækker i høj grad på sine egne oplevelser og sin dybe forståelse for kønspolitikkens ofte tilslørede virkelighed. Og fortæller om, hvad det vil sige at være kvinde lige nu – en højaktuel opfordring til, at vi alle bør være feminister.Sangerinden Beyoncé har samplet dele af Ardichis essay og bruger det i det populære nummer Flawless, hvor teksten fungerer som 2. vers.

Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year--continuing the O. Henry Prize's century-long tradition of literary excellence. Now entering its second century, the prestigious annual story anthology has a new title, a new look, and a new guest editor. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and young emerging voices. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Adichie, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction.Featured in this collection: Daphne Palasi Andreades • David Means • Sindya Bhanoo • Crystal Wilkinson • Alice Jolly • David Rabe • Karina Sainz Borgo (translator, Elizabeth Bryer) • Jamel Brinkley • Tessa Hadley • Adachioma Ezeano • Anthony Doerr • Tiphanie Yanique • Joan Silber • Jowhor Ile • Emma Cline • Asali Solomon • Ben Hinshaw • Caroline Albertine Minor (translator, Caroline Waight) • Jianan Qian • Sally Rooney