Princeton, in the summer, smelled of nothing, and although Ifemelu liked the tranquil greenness of the many trees, the clean streets and stately homes, the delicately overpriced shops, and the quiet, abiding air of earned grace, it was this, the lack of a smell, that most appealed to her, perhaps because the other American cities she knew well had all smelled distinctly.
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Americanah
Primera edición en México.
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Americanah
2018, Thorndike Press
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Translated from the English of the same title.
National book critics circle award, 2013.
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Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.
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- Americanah - Wikipedia
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – review
- Realities of Race (nytimes.com)
- Book review: ‘Americanah’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (washingtonpost.com)
- Book Review: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (medium.com)
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