From the Orange Prize-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' come
twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that
bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.
In 'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent
riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to
confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In
'Tomorrow Is Too Far', a woman unlocks the devastating secret that
surrounds her brother's death.
The young mother at
the centre of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she
learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their
home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of
a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing
like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires
nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine
them. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and
longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.
The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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