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Purple Hibiscus

Pages
299
Published
2006
Language
English

Synopsis

In Nigeria, a young girl named Kambili navigates a household dominated by her devoutly religious and abusive father. When she is sent to live with her aunt, she discovers a world beyond her father's strictures, one filled with music, laughter, and the stirrings of forbidden love. This novel explores the complexities of family, faith, and freedom.

About the author

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book...

Characters

Kambili AchikeProtagonist
Eugene AchikeAntagonist
Aunty IfeomaSupporting
All characters in Purple Hibiscus