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Ameriicanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Edité par Fourth estate - 2014
A searing new novel, at once sweeping and intimate, by the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun: a story of love and race centered around a man and woman from Nigeria who seemed destined to be together--until the choices they are forced to make tear them apart.Ifemelu--beautiful, self-assured--left Nigeria 15 years ago, and now studies in Princeton as a Graduate Fellow. She seems to have fulfilled every immigrant's dream: Ivy League education; success as a writer of a wildly popular political blog; money for the things she needs. But what came before is more like a nightmare: wrenching departure from family; humiliating jobs under a false name. She feels for the first time the weight of something she didn't think about back home: race.Obinze--handsome and kind-hearted--was Ifemelu's teenage love; he'd hoped to join her in America, but post 9/11 America wouldn't let him in. Obinze's journey leads him to back alleys of illegal employment in London; to a fake marriage for the sake of a work card, and finally, to a set of handcuffs as he is exposed and deported. Years later, when they reunite in Nigeria, neither is the same person who left home. Obinze is the kind of successful "Big Man" he'd scorned in his youth, and Ifemelu has become an "Americanah"--a different version of her former self, one with a new accent and attitude. As they revisit their shared passion--for their homeland and for each other--they must face the largest challenges of their lives. Spanning three continents, entering the lives of a richly drawn cast of characters across numerous divides, Americanah is a riveting story of love and expectation set in today's globalized world.
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A must read !
Just do me a huge favour and read this, please. On the cover I read a comment made from Guardian, stating that this book not only tells a great story but it also changes the way you look at the world. I could not have said it any better. This is the story of Ifemelu and Obinze, two Nigerians, and their experiences as they move to America and UK to try and find a better life. This book is about the conception of race, and the difference between African American and American African. How African people don't "know" they are Black until they arrive in America, or UK (but the book is more centered on Ifemelu and the American side of things). It is a book about women, about culture, about class. It is a beautiful love story. And magnificently written. I would say one of the top 10 books I have ever read. It made me think about things I hadn't notice before, or I had not had the occasion to notice, because I'm white and European. So thanks, Adichie. I can't wait to read the rest of your books.
Arianna - Le 20 juillet 2022 à 11:57