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Purple hibiscus

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 1977- (Author).

Summary: In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically abusive. Not until Kambili and Jaja are sent away from home for the very first time to visit their loving aunt, does Kambili's world begin to blossom. But when a military coup threatens to destroy the country, the tension in her family's home escalates, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.

Item details

ISBN: 9781616202415
ISBN: 1616202416
Physical Description: print
307 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012.
Copyright: ©2003

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Subject:

Teenage girls Fiction
Children of the rich Fiction
Brothers and sisters Fiction
Fathers and daughters Fiction
Religious fanaticism Fiction
Coups d'état Fiction
Nigeria Fiction
Aunts Fiction

Genre:

Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Love stories.

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