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DESCRIPTION In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything b...

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Main Authors: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- (Author)
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
Publisher Address: Chapel Hill :
Publication Dates: 2012.
©2003
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Children of the rich > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Religious fanaticism > Fiction.
Coups d'état > Fiction.
Aunts > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Adolescentes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Enfants de riches > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Frères et sœurs > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Pères et filles > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Fanatisme religieux > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Coups d'État > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Tantes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Roman familial.
NIGERIA.
novels (form)
Aunts.
Siblings.
Children of the rich.
Coups d'état.
Fathers and daughters.
Religious fanaticism
Teenage girls.
Tradition.
Familie.
Katholizismus
Roman.
Girls > Fiction.
Teenagers > Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Love stories.
Nigeria > Fiction.
Nigeria.
Englisch.
Belletristische Darstellung.
Romance fiction.
Fiction.
Summary: DESCRIPTION In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically abusive. Not until Kambili and Jaja are sent away from home for the very first time to visit their loving aunt, does Kambili's world begin to blossom. But when a military coup threatens to destroy the country, the tension in her family's home escalates, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
Carrier Form: 307 pages ; 21 cm
Also issued online.
Awards: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Debut Fiction, 2004.
ISBN: 9781616202415
1616202416
Index Number: PR9387
CLC: I437.45
Call Number: I437.45/A235-3

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