Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is from Abba, in Anambra State, but grew up in the university town of Nsukka, where she attended primary and secondary schools. She went on to receive a BS in Communication and Political Science from Eastern Connecticut State University and an MA from Johns Hopkins University, both in the United States. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals including Granta, and won the International PEN/David Wong award in 2003. 'Purple Hibiscus', her first novel, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy award for debut fiction. She was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year. She lives in Nigeria.
Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
这本书我拖拖拉拉了好久才看完,看完的时候感觉心情十分复杂。这是一部以尼日利亚内战为历史背景的半真实半虚构小说。从看到战争爆发那段开始,就觉得很难受,因此影响了阅读速度。这是我阅读的第一本非洲文学。最大的障碍是很难去想象书中的人、场景、环境这些。于是在快看完...
评分 评分第一次读非洲作家的小说,尽管这部作品也是诞生在海外。作者是尼日利亚人,这本书聚焦于1967-1970年的尼日利亚内战,也称比亚法拉战争。半轮黄日则是比亚法拉的国旗。尼日利亚作为非洲最混乱复杂的国家,拥有着250个民族,各民族有着自己的语言,加之英美国家对于该国的插手,...
评分先读了“代译后记”,很不错,写得很有高度!尼日利亚出了不少善于讲故事的作家,阿迪契作为年轻一代中的佼佼者,讲故事的能力令人赞叹,而她敢于挑战战争叙事的勇气且在书写中体现出的人道关怀与远见卓识更令人难忘!身为伊博族富家女、从小享受荣华富贵的孪生姐妹奥兰娜与凯...
评分女作家的一贯手笔
评分女作家的一贯手笔
评分女作家的一贯手笔
评分女作家的一贯手笔
评分女作家的一贯手笔
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