Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose first two novels won literary awards. She is a native of Abba, Nigeria, in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra state, Southeast Nigeria. Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
By turns luminous and horrific, this debut ensnares the reader from the first page and lingers in the memory long after its tragic end. First-person narrator Kambili Achike is a 15-year-old Nigerian girl growing up in sheltered privilege in a country ravaged by political strife and personal struggle. She and her brother, Jaja, and their quiet mother, who speaks "the way a bird eats, in small amounts," live this life of luxury because Kambili's father is a wealthy man who owns factories, publishes a politically outspoken newspaper and outwardly leads the moral, humble life of a faithful Catholic. The many grateful citizens who have received his blessings and material assistance call him omelora, "The One Who Does for the Community." Yet Kambili, Jaja and their mother see a side to their provider no one else does: he is also a religious fanatic who regularly and viciously beats his family for the mildest infractions of his interpretation of an exemplary Christian life. The children know better than to discuss their home life with anyone else; "there was so much that we never told." But when they are unexpectedly allowed to visit their liberated and loving Aunty Ifeoma, a widowed university professor raising three children, family secrets and tensions bubble dangerously to the surface, setting in motion a chain of events that allow Kambili to slowly blossom as she begins to question the authority of the precepts and adults she once held sacred. In a soft, searing voice, Adichie examines the complexities of family, faith and country through the haunted but hopeful eyes of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood. Lush, cadenced and often disconcerting, this is an accomplished first effort.
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人生中第一本认认真真完完整整读完的英文小说。本是因为课程的原因而不得不读,但进度过半之后心甘情愿地继续,也不想停下查生词了。或者说这是我很长一段时间以来第一次静下心来流畅地阅读了。英文小说没那么难,读书也没那么难。不知为什么,我忽然为自己长久以来挥霍着自己的时光和幸运而感到无比羞愧。
评分阿迪契的故事中主人公,一个十五岁的小女孩儿一个在非洲不太普遍的中产阶级家庭长大。父亲是一个狂热的天主教徒和家庭独裁者,母亲是一个唯唯诺诺的和事佬,唯一的哥哥嘉嘉似乎慢慢的发现了自己作为男性需要独立的一面,故事穿插了尼日利亚的比亚弗拉战争和以及战争对于自己家庭的影响,一个见大见小的社会剪影。文中多处出现的或明或暗的摘引显示了阿迪契对于对阿契贝的致敬。
评分是aunty一家教会了两个孩子什么是真正的爱和快乐 我哭了
评分读此书了解尼日利亚文化,惊讶于宗教,以及男女间的差异和最后的结局,值得一看。
评分读此书了解尼日利亚文化,惊讶于宗教,以及男女间的差异和最后的结局,值得一看。
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