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Americanah

A Novel

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Americanah

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

"An expansive, epic love story."—O, The Oprah Magazine

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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 dangerous, undocumented life in London.

At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel that is "dazzling…funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise."San Francisco Chronicle

©2024 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2024 Random House Audio
African American Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Heartfelt Inspiring Thought-Provoking
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“What’s as American as the invention of race? Self-invention. So we are reminded by Adichie’s engaging third novel . . . Adichie is uniquely positioned to compare racial hierarchies in the United States to social striving in her native Nigeria. She does so in this new work with a ruthless honesty about the ugly and beautiful sides of both nations. Americanah is social satire masquerading as romantic comedy. . . . Beyond race, the book is about the immigrant’s quest: self-invention, which is the American subject. Americanah is unique among the booming canon of immigrant literature of the last generation (including writers Junot Díaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Gary Shteyngart, Chang-rae Lee, Dinaw Mengestu and Susan Choi). Its ultimate concern isn’t the challenge of becoming American or the hyphenation that requires, but the challenge of going back home. . . . Affecting.”—Emily Raboteau, The Washington Post

“Adichie has written a big knockout of a novel about immigration, American dreams, the power of first love, and the shifting meanings of skin color . . . Americanah is a sweeping story that derives its power as much from Adichie’s witty and fluid writing style as it does from keen social commentary. . . . Americanah works in so many different genres—coming-of-age novel, romance, comic novel of social manners, up-to-the-minute meditation on race, as well as the aforementioned immigrant saga—that I’m shortchanging its bounty by only mentioning some of the main characters’ adventures here. Like Ifemelu’s hairdo, Adichie’s novel tightly braids together multiple ideas and storylines. It’s a marvel of skilled construction and imagination.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR

Americanah is one of the freshest pieces of fiction of the year, easily on par with George Saunders’s Tenth of December, and the fact that its subject isn’t instantly recognizable does not make it any less of an engrossing, all-encompassing read. Americanah is quite explicitly a book about race and African identity, but there are many moments when it transcends these themes. Adichie’s style of writing is familiar and personal, and her depiction of the African diaspora scathingly casts many of her main characters as a particularly loathsome type of East Coast intellectual. . . . Her success comes at the level of sentences, the way she can bring a character to life on the strength of a few words . . . This book is absolutely essential.”—Drew Grant, New York Observer

Beautiful Love Story • Vivid Writing • Excellent Narration • Insightful Commentary • Natural Voice • Perfect Inflections
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The fluidity of her writing. The details are so engaging. And of course the narrator is a legend

Beautiful

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The story is an eye opener. And I think listening to it had a greater effect as the narrator mastered the English Nigerian accent.

Great listen

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Terrific perspective on race relations in the US vs abroad. Smart. beautiful and complex love story.

Dues race matter?

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An extraordinarily beautiful narration by Adjoa Andoh. Her inflections and tone were perfectly and aptly done for every character. The accents were brilliant. I truly enjoyed listening to this novel while I read this profound story.

Brilliant

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I forgot how much I loved this story. I read it when it was first published, but I had never listened to the audible version. Everything about it worked! Excellent narration. Beautiful storytelling. I will listen again.

A Triumph!

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I loved every minute of this book. The narration was point and the story of itself was relatable. Great listen!!

Great listen

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One of the most beautiful stories I’ve ever read and the audio book is excellent

Beautiful and moving

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Nothing, Listened to the ending of Americana’s with a foreboding.. I was thinking obinze will die.. now I am smiling.. content!

Everything!

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Too good. I enjoyed it very much. It was a lot of fun with depth.👌🏽

What more can I say that has not been said ?

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I love the accuracy and how this book kept me on the edge wanting to keep reading

This author never disappoints

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