作者简介

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria.
Her work has been translated into over 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; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book; and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Ms. Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck.
Ms. Adichie has been invited to speak around the world. Her 2009 TED Talk, The Danger of A Single Story, is now one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time. Her 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminists has a started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014.
Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.
A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Ms. Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

内容简介

One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year

LONGLISTED 2015 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.

As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze—the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor—had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

Years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion—for their homeland and for each other—they will face the toughest decisions of their lives.

Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today’s globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s most powerful and astonishing novel yet.


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria.

Her work has been translated into over 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; Half of a Ye...

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  • 半个桃李林檎
    这本小说可以看做是非洲移民版的《志明与春娇》,不求最好,但求最合适。第三世界人民的生活和精神状态大抵是相似的,从尼日利亚女孩Ifemelu辗转于美国和非洲的经历来看,海归的命运也是可以按类别检索的,她在美国求职的遭遇跟我所认识的留学生境遇如出一辙。12-26
  • Fermion
    不能给五星的原因:it felt sort of like a ten-hour road trip with a deeply self-involved friend(引用).但不失为一本让人开眼界的好书.06-07
  • 郭Rachel
    洞察力和表现力惊人,每个在美国生活过的非欧美白人都能在其中找到共鸣。有时仰天大笑,有时掩卷叹息,有时想流泪……可先观看http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en 这个15分钟的演说感受作者的魅力05-14
  • Baristina
    没什么比可以open your eyes的书更好的了 如果哪天决定去非洲一定有这本书的原因 02-18
  • Asita
    !!!!!The best reading for the postcolonialism course. So well-written.03-29

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