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Purple Hibiscus

By:

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

Publication details: Great Britain : HarperCollins, 2017Description: 307PISBN:

9780007189885

Subject(s):

Fiction

Summary: 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 by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer. When Nigeria is shaken by 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.

List(s) this item appears in: Croydon Health Services Library Women's Collection

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Croydon Health Services Library Shelves	Women's Collection (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		CR0000013262
Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves	ZZ 5 ADI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	06/03/2025	slam000444

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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 by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.

When Nigeria is shaken by 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.

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