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Purple Hibiscus

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About the author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Purple Hibiscus won the Commonwealth Writers’ Best First Book Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy award. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

About the book

Kambili, a 15-year-old girl, lives in fear of her father, a charismatic yet violent Catholic patriarch who, although generous and well respected in his community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Escape and the

discovery of a new, liberated life come when Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, and Kambili and her brother go to live at their aunt’s home, a noisy place full of laughter. The visit lifts the silence from her world and, in time, unlocks a terrible, bruising secret at the heart of her family.

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An extraordinary debut, Purple Hibiscus is a novel about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred — the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and true living begins.