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Purple hibiscus : a novel

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Subject: Teenage girls Fiction. / Children of the rich Fiction. / Brothers and sisters Fiction. / Fathers and daughters Fiction. / Religious fanaticism Fiction. / Coups d'état Fiction. / Aunts Fiction. / Nigeria Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781616202415, 1616202416

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9387.9.A34354 P87 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE