| Edition |
First Anchor Books edition. |
| Description |
307 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
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... 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. |
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Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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Children of the rich -- Fiction.
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Siblings -- Fiction.
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Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Religious fanaticism -- Fiction.
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Coups d'état -- Fiction.
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Nigeria -- Fiction.
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Aunts -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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Love stories.
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| ISBN |
1400076943 paperback |
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