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020 _a9780007189885
080 _aWomen's Collection
100 1 _aAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
245 1 _aPurple Hibiscus
260 _aGreat Britain :
_bHarperCollins,
_c2017
300 _a307P
500 _aMonograph
520 _aThe 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.
650 _aFiction
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999 _c72426
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