An edition of Americanah (1969)

Americanah

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An edition of Americanah (1969)

Americanah

First Anchor Books Edition (5)
  • 3.9 (39 ratings) ·
  • 535 Want to read
  • 39 Currently reading
  • 63 Have read

Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post—9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a danger- ous, undocumented life in London. At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel of race, love, and identity by the award-winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichte.
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Publish Date
Publisher
Anchor Books
Language
English
Pages
588

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2019-01-23, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Americanah
2018-11, Literatura Random House
Paperback in Spanish - Primera edición en este formato, Quinta reimpresión
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Americanah
2018, Thorndike Press
Hardcover in English - Large print edition (6)
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Americanah: A Novel
2016, Large Print Press
paperback in English - Large print edition
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Americanah
2014, Literatura Random House
Hardcover in Spanish - Primera edición en México.
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Americanah
2014, Vintage Canada
paperback in English - Vintage Canada Edition (7)
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Americanah
2014-03, Anchor Books
Paperback in English - First Anchor Books Edition (5)
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Americanah
2013, W F Howes
Paperback in English - Large print edition (1)
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Americanah
2013, Fourth Estate
Hardcover in English - printing (1)
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Americanah
2013, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2013

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823'.92
Library of Congress
PR9387.9.A34354 A72 2014

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
588p.
Number of pages
588

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25682590M
Internet Archive
americanah0000adic
ISBN 10
0307455920
ISBN 13
9780307455925
LCCN
2012043875
OCLC/WorldCat
885396592, 853244448
Goodreads
58459094

Work Description

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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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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