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Harper Perennial,
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| Publisher Address: | London |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 433 p.: ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780007200283 (pbk.) 0007200285 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | I437 |
| CLC: | I437.45 |
| Call Number: | I437.45/A235-1 |
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Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2006. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor's beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna's twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops ad |