Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Americanah

ByChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Release Date: 2013-05-14
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 2,038 Ratings

Description

10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

"An expansive, epic love story."—O, The Oprah Magazine

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post–9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel that is "dazzling…funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise." —San Francisco Chronicle

Reviews

  • 👏🏽

    5
    By T Morolo
    What a BOOK!!!!!

    I’m reading it for the 2nd time. The first time I was much younger and didn’t really understand it the way I do now.

  • An important book

    5
    By PearlHazel
    One of the best books I’ve read. Beautifully written, full of wise and wonderful insight.

  • Slow Starting, Fast Finishing

    3
    By ChannonNichole
    I was determined ish this book but it took me 3 years. I stopped so many times because I could not latch on to any direction of the story or main characters. Disclaimer, I read mostly non-fiction but I was told to read this by a friend of mine who is an immigrant and she told me it really helped her relate.

    If the whole book was the middle and end, I would have finished it in a week. The characters became more and more visible and richly emotional for me. I do recommend it if you are more disciplined than I am with fiction.

  • Interesting!

    4
    By livyloo94
    Great story and felt educated on the cultural differences.

  • Good Read

    4
    By 24Kel91
    Some chapters were pretty drawn out and the ending left something to be desired.

  • Must Read

    5
    By AshBashTyAsh
    Relatable and eye-opening. As a Jamaican immigrant that migrated to a completely new way of life in the United States 4 years ago, reading this novel brought great lows and highs for me. I went from melancholy, to ambivalence, to pure bliss, to resentment and feeling detested. It was a truly a BEAUTIFUL novel… Chimamanda is incredible. I now want to read everything she writes, her words were bold and captivating. When thrown to Obinze’s character, I would become restless and a little annoyed and impatient, mostly because I was so enamored with Ifemelu and the female’s perspective, nevertheless I look forward to what proceeds Americanah.

  • I started this book 2 years ago.

    1
    By Shunp08
    A waste of my time then and now. The ONLY reason I fiished this is because I paid for it. It was a huge disappointment. Had I purchased the hardcover I would have thrown it in the trash.

  • Americahna

    5
    By read mor
    I can not get the book to download. Has there been a problem with this bookread mor

  • My all-time favorite book

    5
    By Megh92
    This novel brought me to tears on several occasions. Absolutely beautiful.

  • Great novel, cliche ending

    4
    By Michstery
    At times, I felt that their was an immaturity in the writing but, some were burgeoning moments of greatness. Example of a great modern novel and showcases the early development of adichie

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