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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.
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"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.
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction.The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.
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).
William Jackson Hooker also named it a Hibiscus in The Botanical Magazine in 1846. [5] Paul Fryxell, in the journal "Australian Plants" (1966), [6] described the species as one of two in a uniquely Australian genus. Along with Hibiscus Huegelii, it was transferred in 1968 to one of four Alyogyne species.
This is the discography of the American rock band Lit. They have released six studio albums , one compilation album , one EP , one live album, thirteen singles , and twenty-three music videos . Albums
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