The Thing Around Your Neck

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780007306213 Global Overview for this book
Registered by cally-c of Alfreton, Derbyshire United Kingdom on 2/18/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by cally-c from Alfreton, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Thursday, February 18, 2010
Product Description
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In 'A Private Experience,' a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In 'Tomorrow Is Too Far,' a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death. The young mother at the center of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.

Journal Entry 2 by cally-c at Alfreton, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Saturday, June 18, 2011
These were great short stories, I enjoyed them all.

Journal Entry 3 by cally-c at on Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Journal Entry 4 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Sunday, January 6, 2013
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection of short stories as it brings culturual influences into light.

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