An edition of Americanah (1969)

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An edition of Americanah (1969)

Americanah

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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. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.

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Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English

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Subjects

Nigerians, Immigrants, Refugees, African-Americans, literary fiction, African-American fiction, cultural heritage, Fiction, blogging, romance, corruption, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, 1000blackgirlbooks, Fiction, historical, Nigeria, fiction, Large type books, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / African American / General, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2014-03-23, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Literary, African American, General, English literature, Inmigrantes, Ficción, Regugiados, Nigeriano, Ficcion, History, Romans, nouvelles, Racisme, Relations raciales, Réfugiés, Nigérians, Livres en gros caractères, Large print books, Immigrants--fiction, Refugees--fiction, Nigerians--united states--fiction, Nigerians--england--fiction, Fiction--literary, Fiction--african american--general, Pr9387.9.a34354 a44 2013, 823/.92, Fic019000 fic049000 fic051000, Emigration and immigration

People

Ifemelu, Obinze

Places

United States, Nigeria, England, New York, Philadelphia, Lagos, London

Times

2000s, 2010s

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Americanah
2019-01-23, Gallimard
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Americanah
2018, Thorndike Press
Hardcover in English - Large print edition (6)
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Americanah
2018-11, Literatura Random House
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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
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Americanah
2014-03, Anchor Books
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Americanah
2013, Alfred A. Knopf
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2013, Alfred A. Knopf
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Americanah
2013, W F Howes
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2013, Fourth Estate
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Copyright Date
2013

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.92
Library of Congress
PR9387.9.A34354 A44 2013
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Open Library
OL26459046M
ISBN 10
0307962121
ISBN 13
9780307962126
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2012043875
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B00A9ET4MC
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Canadian National Library Archive
C2012-904521-7
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35638744

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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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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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