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Daha önce Amerikana adlı romanını yayımladığımız, National Book Ciritics Circle ödüllü Nijeryalı yazar Adichie, bu kez öykü derlemesiyle okurların karşısına çıkıyor. Özenle çizilmiş karakterlere odaklanan bu öykülerde erkekler ve kadınları, ebeveynler ve çocukları, sürgündekiler ve geride kalanları birbirine bağlayan bağlar irdeleniyor. Sakınmasız ve alabildiğine gerçekçi olmakla birlikte olağanüstü bir duyarlık ve güzellik sergileyen öyküler, sürgünde ve yersiz yurtsuz olma deneyimiyle gelen derin hüsran duygusuna, “sıradan” insanların kültür farkını aşma ve sevgiyi yeniden kazanma çabasına ışık tutuyor.
Amerika ve Nijerya’da geçen bu öykülerde aidiyet ve bağlılık konusundaki soru işaretleri çoğaldıkça çoğalıyor… Karakterlerin çoğu Nijerya’da büyüyüp Amerika’ya göç etmiş, ancak burada yersiz yurtsuzluğu tecrübe edip tehlike ve karmaşa içine düşüyorlar. Küresel dünyanın kozmopolit bir üyesi olmaktansa iki kıta arasında kalakalıp, akış halindeki iki kültürün sınır boylarına itiliyorlar. Bu eserdeki en güçlü hikâyeler oldukça karmaşık ve çatışkılı karakterleri anlatıyor; çoğu da hayati tehlikeler yaşıyorlar… Adichie siyasi koşulların yarattığı dalgalanmaları, tarihin “acı” ve “katı” gerçeklerini, buna karşın faillerin yüreğindeki yumuşaklık ve inceliği gözler önüne sermekte usta olduğunu kanıtlıyor.
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Nigeria in fiction, Fiction, Short stories, Nigerian (English), Literature, Fiction, short stories (single author), Nigeria, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Kurzgeschichte, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, romance, collections & anthologies, Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Short storiesPlaces
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore Sun), with "prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes" (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her "the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe." Her award-winning Half of a Yellow Sun became an instant classic upon its publication three years later, once again putting her tremendous gifts--graceful storytelling, knowing compassion, and fierce insight into her characters' hearts--on display. Now, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.In "A Private Experience," a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In "Tomorrow is Too Far," a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death. The young mother at the center of "Imitation" finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to reexamine them.Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. The Thing Around Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious literary powers of one of our most essential writers.From the Hardcover edition.
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