Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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 work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the BBC Short Story Awards and has appeared in various literary publications, including Zoetrope and The Iowa Review.

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UNTITLED

The new novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the Orange Prize-winner and international bestseller Half of a Yellow Sun.

Publication date: UK 11th Oct 2012

UNTITLED [ePub edition]

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The new novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the Orange Prize-winner and international bestseller Half of a Yellow Sun.

Publication date: UK 11th Oct 2012

THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK

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From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.

Publication date: UK 1st Oct 2009

HALF OF A YELLOW SUN [Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary edition]

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‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ is one of five classic Fourth Estate books to be released as numbered, collectable editions to mark the 25th anniversary. The books will be beautifully produced hardbacks, limited to 2000 copies each, with jackets designed by some of the finest artists at work today.

Publication date: UK 15th May 2009

THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK [ePub edition]

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From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.

Publication date: UK 13th Mar 2009

HALF OF A YELLOW SUN [ePub edition]

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In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect.

Publication date: UK 19th Jan 2009

HALF OF A YELLOW SUN

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In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect.

Publication date: UK 15th Jan 2007

PURPLE HIBISCUS

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The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.

Publication date: UK 7th Feb 2005