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Americanah
Reader Score
96%
96% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Good
Based on 16 reviews on
"An expansive, epic love story."--O, The Oprah Magazine
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel that is "dazzling...funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise." --San Francisco Chronicle
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Mar 4th, 2014
- Pages: 608
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.30in - 1.10in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9780307455925
- Categories: • Literary• Cultural Heritage• African American & Black - General
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What people are saying
"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tackles issues of loneliness, identity and loss. This is a novel that remains close to my heart and really resonated with me, having read it at a time when I briefly moved from the UK to live in America."
Pamela Paul is an opinion columnist at the New York Times.
I know you all already know this, but wow, is this book good. I don’t know what took me so long to read Chimamanda’s fiction, but I will use as an excuse that I was wrapped up in all her excellent nonfiction and essays and interviews.
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Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
One of the Best Books of the Year:
The New York Times - NPR - Chicago Tribune - The Washington Post - The Seattle Times - Entertainment Weekly - Newsday - Goodreads
One of Time's 10 Best Fiction Books of the year
"Dazzling. . . . Funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise. . . . Brilliant." --San Francisco Chronicle
"A very funny, very warm and moving intergenerational epic that confirms Adichie's virtuosity, boundless empathy and searing social acuity." --Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King
"Masterful. . . . An expansive, epic love story. . . . Pulls no punches with regard to race, class and the high-risk, heart-tearing struggle for belonging in a fractured world." --O, The Oprah Magazine
"[A] knockout of a novel about immigration, American dreams, the power of first love, and the shifting meanings of skin color. . . . A marvel." --NPR
"A cerebral and utterly transfixing epic. . . . Americanah is superlative at making clear just how isolating it can be to live far away from home. . . . Unforgettable." --The Boston Globe
"Witheringly trenchant and hugely empathetic . . . a novel that holds the discomfiting realities of our times fearlessly before us. . . . A steady-handed dissection of the universal human experience." --The New York Times Book Review
"Adichie is uniquely positioned to compare racial hierarchies in the United States to social striving in her native Nigeria. She does so in this new work with a ruthless honesty about the ugly and beautiful sides of both nations." --The Washington Post
"Gorgeous. . . . A bright, bold book with unforgettable swagger that proves it sometimes takes a newcomer to show Americans to ourselves." --The Dallas Morning News
"Americanah tackles the U.S. race complex with a directness and brio no U.S. writer of any color would risk." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"So smart about so many subjects that to call it a novel about being black in the 21st century doesn't even begin to convey its luxurious heft and scope. . . . Capacious, absorbing and original." --Jennifer Reese, NPR
"Superb . . . Americanah is that rare thing in contemporary literary fiction: a lush, big-hearted love story that also happens to be a piercingly funny social critique." --Vogue
"A near-flawless novel." --The Seattle Times
What people are saying
"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tackles issues of loneliness, identity and loss. This is a novel that remains close to my heart and really resonated with me, having read it at a time when I briefly moved from the UK to live in America."
Pamela Paul is an opinion columnist at the New York Times.
I know you all already know this, but wow, is this book good. I don’t know what took me so long to read Chimamanda’s fiction, but I will use as an excuse that I was wrapped up in all her excellent nonfiction and essays and interviews.