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The Thing Around Your Neck

The Thing Around Your Neck( )
Author: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Narrated by: Andoh, Adjoa
ISBN:978-1-4618-1452-8
Publication Date:May 2010
Publisher:Recorded Books, Inc.
Book Format:Downloadable audio file
List Price:USD $65.00
Book Description:

Winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and an Orange Prize for Fiction, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie continues the literary tradition of Chinua Achebe, one of her greatest influences, in this brilliant collection of stories. Focusing on life's many clashes-tradition with modernity, African cultures with American-Adichie delivers a series of haunting, character-driven tales. "Adichie's graceful and slicing stories . beautifully capture the immense resonance of small things...
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Author Biography
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (Author)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria on September 15, 1977. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half before moving to the United States, where she studied communication at Drexel University for two years. She received a bachelor's degree in communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2001, a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, and a master's degree in African Studies from Yale University in 2008.

Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was published in 2003 and received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2005. Her other books include The Thing around Your Neck, Americanah, and We Should All Be Feminist. Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize in 2007. She was awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize, for her body of work that shows 'outstanding literary merit'.

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