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Purple hibiscus: a novel

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The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer.

When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love - and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family.

This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun', is 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 real life is lived.

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HarperPerennial
000738369X / 9780007383696
eBook (EPUB)
823.92
29/11/2012
England
English
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204 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Description based on print version record. Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2004.