The Thing Around Your Neck - Hardcover

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307397890 ISBN 13: 9780307397898

Publisher: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'Her writing is clear-eyed and fresh, her characters simply drawn...Adichie writes with a cool detachment that allows her to plunder grief and stereotype to brilliant effect.' Times

'Adichie is a skilled storyteller with a fluid, straightforward style and while some of the stories feel constrained by their length, the majority are perfectly balanced.' Observer

Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Sunday Times

'Casts a sympathetic eye on the plight of Nigerians who dream of living abroad, and those adjusting to the immigrant's life' Financial Times, Books of the Year

About the Author:

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. Her most recent novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the Orange Broadband Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House of Canada Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307397890
• ISBN 13: 9780307397898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 218