Americanah

av Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

eaudio

På English

Publicerades 30 december 2013 av Recorded Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-4703-8892-8
OCLC-nummer:: 868028858

From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home. As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu-- beautiful, self-assured-- departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze-- the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor-- had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion-- for their homeland and for each other-- they will face the toughest decisions of their lives. Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today' s globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie' s most powerful and astonishing novel yet.

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Bob recenserade Americanah av Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Un très bon roman qui fait plonger dans la question des racines et de l'identité

5 stjärnor

J'ai beaucoup aimé Americanah. L'héroïne Ifemelu, quitte le Nigeria pour aller étudier aux États-Unis et se retrouve confronté à la question de son identité entre étudiante états-unienne et nigériane, aux questions de race et de racisme entre les deux continents, mais également à la distance avec sa famille, aux histoires d'amours et relations quand on vit à l'étranger. C'est beau, très bien écrit, et très fin.

jon_bon recenserade Americanah av Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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4 stjärnor

Väldigt levande, fina miljö- och karaktärsbeskrivningar. Intressant om främlingskap på olika nivåer.

Björn recenserade Americanah av Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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4 stjärnor

"I didn't know I was black until I moved to America." Adichie's story of a Nigerian woman moving to the US and then returning home again is a strong novel, and much like Half Of A Yellow Sun it's very hard to put down once you get into it. A believable star-crossed (or rather pride-and-accident-crossed) lovers' tale framing a story of identity, adaptation, prejudice and communication (or lack thereof), centered around one woman trying to keep track of and establish who she is in the eyes of everyone around her; is it even possible for a woman of colour to simply be her, not whatever people (and she herself) projects on her?

"Saying 'the question of race is complicated' is the biggest simplification of all."

At the risk of sounding like a character in the novel, there are times when the novel's constant dissection of race becomes almost a little single-minded, and Ifemelu and her blog always getting the last word on it in-story - but then again, I'm one of those who don't have to face it myself, and considering all the other single-minded novels I've read, what's to complain about? Adichie picks and picks and picks at the relationship between her characters, between their images of where they and the others come from and what they are, the different sets of expectations and limitations placed upon people in different contexts, the clash between old images and new, argues her case extremely well, paints a multi-faceted picture both of the things that are said and the things that are pointedly NOT said, and delivers one hell of a novel. This is a novelist reaching her peak, still having reserves to draw on.

Also, the US concept of 'race' really is all-pervasive, isn't it?