Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece.
Now available as a digital download.
This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.
The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character.
As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
© 2007 HarperCollins (Ljudbok): 9780007263004
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 16 april 2007
Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece.
Now available as a digital download.
This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.
The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character.
As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
© 2007 HarperCollins (Ljudbok): 9780007263004
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 16 april 2007
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Susanne
12 nov. 2011
Åh, en fantastisk berättelse om skeenden som äger rum även idag. Berättaren ger karaktär åt personerna som ingen annan !
beatrice
9 dec. 2013
fantastiskt berättelse o mycket bra läsare.
Nina
3 feb. 2021
Oh vilken historia. Om kärlek, klass, kolonialism, rasism, Nigeria, Biafra, människor, ondska och öden. Jättebra inläsning.
Anders
25 sep. 2019
Och boken börjar om från början. Spola fram till 2:37:30 så fortsätter boken.
Maarit
4 mars 2016
Bra uppläsning! Saknar detaljer så det blir en tur till biblioteket för ursprungsversionen... Vill ha mer av Adichie! Americanah exempelvis...
Anna
17 maj 2013
Fantastisk uppläsning
Felicia
15 aug. 2016
Mycket viktig bok, något svaga karaktärer och ytliga motiv till handlingar (tänker främst på Ugwus handlingar som känns helt karaktärsfrämmande och som inte undersöks eller motiveras på något bra sätt). Uppläsaren är helt makalöst bra!
Malin
13 mars 2016
Mkt bra. Underbar uppläsare!
Camilla
26 juni 2018
En riktigt bra bok. Handlingen utspelar sig i Nigeria och revolutionen om Biafra. Välskriven. En riktigt bra uppläsare. Märks att hon fått priser för det.
Alexander
19 feb. 2016
Bra bok. Men förkortad version. Jag tror att den är kortad med mer än 50%.
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