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Purple Hibiscus is the first novel by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It portrays Kambili Achike, a 15 year old Nigerian teenage girl who struggles in the shadow of her father, Eugene. Eugene is a successful businessman, a beloved philanthropist, and a devout Catholic, who nevertheless violently abuses his family.
Grisham describes Kambili as "a 15 year-old African girl who lives with her mother, brother, and father, Eugene." And would later assert that "her father plays a dominant role in her life, plans her schedule down to every last minute, and demands absolute adherence to his extreme rules of Catholicism."
"Cell One" (first published in The New Yorker), in which a spoilt brother and son of a professor is sent to a Nigerian prison and ends up in the infamous Cell One. "Imitation" (first published in Other Voices) is set in Philadelphia and concerns Nkem, a young mother whose art-dealer husband visits only two months a year.
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The Intertextual Imagination in Purple Hibiscus; Dethroning The Infallible Father: Religion, Patriarchy and Politics In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Redemption; Beyond the odds of the red hibiscus: a critical reading of Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ m ə ˈ m ɑː n d ə ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ d iː tʃ i. eɪ / ⓘ [a]; born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian author and activist. Regarded as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature, she is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Americanah (2013).