An edition of Americanah (2013)

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An edition of Americanah (2013)

Americanah

  • 3.81 ·
  • 37 Ratings
  • 500 Want to read
  • 37 Currently reading
  • 60 Have read

Lagos, mediados de los noventa. En el marco de una dictadura militar y en una Nigeria que ofrece poco o ningún futuro, Ifemelu y Obinze, dos adolescentes atípicos, se enamoran apasionadamente. Como gran parte de su generación, saben que antes o después tendrán que dejar el país. Obinze siempre ha soñado con vivir en Estados Unidos, pero es Ifemelu quien consigue el visado para vivir con su tía en Brooklyn y estudiar en la universidad. Mientras Obinze lucha contra la burocracia para reunirse con Ifemelu, ella se encuentra en una América donde nada es como se imaginaba, comenzando por la importancia del color de su piel. Todas sus experiencias, desgracias y aventuras conducen a una única pregunta: ¿acabará convirtiéndose en una «americanah»?

Americanah, que recoge el término burlón con que los nigerianos se refieren a los que vuelven de Estados Unidos dándose aires, es una historia de amor a lo largo de tres décadas y tres continentes, la historia de cómo se crea una identidad al margen de los dictados de la sociedad y sus prejuicios.

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2019-01-23, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback in French
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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
Paperback in Spanish - Primera edición en este formato, Quinta reimpresión
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Americanah
2017, Literatura Random House
Epub in Spanish
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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
2014-03, Anchor Books
Paperback in English - First Anchor Books Edition (5)
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Americanah
2014, Vintage Canada
paperback in English - Vintage Canada Edition (7)
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2013, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
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Americanah
2013, W F Howes
Paperback in English - Large print edition (1)
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Americanah
2013, Fourth Estate
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Published in
Barcelona, Spain
Copyright Date
2017
Translation Of
Americanah
Translated From
English

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OL26459098M
ISBN 10
8439728808
ISBN 13
9788439728801
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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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