Parametry
Producent: | Harper Collins Publishers |
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Kategoria: | Literatura obcojęzyczna |
ISBN | 9780007189885 |
Oprawa | miękka |
Autor | Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie |
Wydawnictwo | HarperCollins |
Ilość stron | 336 |
Rok wydania | 2005 |
Opis
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 żeby schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.
When Nigeria is shaken aby a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love - and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family.
This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun', is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred - the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived.
When Nigeria is shaken aby a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love - and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family.
This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun', is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred - the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived.