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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Notes ​on Grief
Notes ​on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book--a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Lila ​hibiskus
Kambilis ​far Eugene Achike är en riktig hjälte. Han tar hand om de sina, han äger en tidning som oförskräckt kritiserar korruptionen och maktmissbruket i samhällets högsta skikt, han får pris av Amnesty International och skänker stora summor till välgörande ändamål. Men i hemmet är han en tyrann. Han misshandlar sina barn och sin fru om de gör det minsta avsteg från det han betraktar som den enda sanna vägen, en hårdhänt och intolerant katolsk tro. Han har till och med stött bort sin egen far, eftersom denne hållit fast vid sina förfäders religion. Kambili och hennes bror Jaja får en aning om ett annat sätt att leva när de under en tid får bo hemma hos sin faster, som i sin kärleksfullhet och rättframhet är sin brors raka motsats. Denna aning om ett friare liv växer till ett uppror hos Kambili och Jaja. Familjens maktordning är plötsligt i gungning och en våldsam brytning blir mer och mer oundviklig. Med Lila hibiskus har Chimamanda Adichie skrivit en berättelse som med både inlevelse och precision visar hur en yttre godhet kan rymma både brutalitet och brist på empati. Hennes porträtt av Eugene Achike kan väl mäta sig med Ingmar Bergmans biskop Vergerus i Fanny och Alexander när det gäller att gestalta motsägelsefullhet och religiöst bigotteri.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Zikora
When ​Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her equally high-powered lover that she's pregnant, he abandons her. But it's Zikora's demanding, self-possessed mother, in town for the birth, who makes Zikora feel like a lonely little girl all over again. Shunned by the speed with which her ideal life fell apart, Zikora turns to reflecting on her mother's painful past and struggle for dignity. Preparing for motherhood, Zikora begins to see more clearly what her own mother wants for her, for her new baby, and for herself.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Všetci ​by sme mali byť feminist(k)ami
„Čo ​vlastne v súčasnosti znamená feminizmus?“ pýta sa nás slávna esej, ktorú vo svojom hite citovala aj popová diva Beyoncé. Úderný titul tejto eseje, ktorý v origináli znie We Should All Be Feminists, sa dostal aj na odevy kolekcie značky Dior. Keď tenistka Dominika Cibulková zverejnila na Instagrame fotku v tričku s týmto nápisom, zniesla sa na ňu vlna kritiky a mnohí fanúšikovia jej odporúčali, aby radšej rodila deti. A aj preto je táto esej dôležitá. Pochopili to vo Švédsku, kde sa tamojšia vláda v roku 2015 rozhodla venovať každému šestnásťročnému Švédovi a Švédke jeden výtlačok knihy Všetci by sme mali byť feminist(k)ami. Prečo by sme ju mali čítať my? Nigérijská spisovateľka Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie nám vo svojej osobnej a dobre vyargumentovanej knižnej eseji – rovnomennej adaptácii úspešného TEDx prejavu – ponúka jedinečnú definíciu feminizmu pre 21. storočie. Autorka vychádza predovšetkým zo svojich vlastných skúseností a hlbokého poznania rodovej problematiky. Vie, že rodová politika býva často takmer neviditeľná. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie prichádza s neobyčajným pohľadom na to, čo dnes znamená byť ženou, a zároveň nás v príhodný čas povzbudzuje k tomu, aby sme sa nebáli byť feminst(k)ami.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah ​(német)
Eine ​einschneidende Liebesgeschichte zwischen drei Kontinenten - virtuos und gegenwartsnah erzählt von einer der großen jungen Stimmen der Weltliteratur. Chimamanda Adichie erzählt von der Liebe zwischen Ifemelu und Obinze, die im Nigeria der neunziger Jahre ihren Lauf nimmt. Dann trennen sich ihre Wege: Die selbstbewusste Ifemelu studiert in Princeton, Obinze strandet als illegaler Einwanderer in London. Nach Jahren stehen sie plötzlich vor einer Entscheidung, die ihr Leben auf den Kopf stellt. Adichie gelingt ein eindringlicher, moderner und hochpolitischer Roman über Identität und Rassismus in unserer globale Welt.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Alla ​borde vara feminister
Ett ​personligt upprop för feminism. Den nigerianska författaren Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie blir kallad feminist redan som fjortonåring. Hon struntar i omgivningens nedlåtande attityd och gör ordet till sitt. Chimamanda vill att vi ska sträva efter en rättvisare värld och därför måste vi uppfostra våra barn annorlunda.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Az ​aranyló fél napkorong
A ​történet az 1961-től független Nigéria boldognak ígérkező évtizedében játszódik. Az ikerpár lányok, Olanna és Kainene úgy különböznek egymástól, mint tűz és víz; mintha igaz volna a néphagyomány tabuja az ikrekre az igbo (ibó) népnél. Olanna gyönyörű, érzékeny, Kainene csúnyácska, racionális. Olanna szerelme a matematikus, a forradalmár Odenigbo. Kainene partnere a brit Richard, a volt gyarmatosítók kifinomult leszármazottja, akit a 8-9. századi igbo-ukwu bronzkultúra műremekei vonzanak Afrikába. Ugwu, a háziszolga „bozótországból” jött, s a történetet helyenként az ő szemén keresztül láttatja a szerző, amely izgalmas, szellemes lehetőségeket kínál. Ugwu Odenigbót tekinti Urának, mesterének, tőle tanulja a „szép új világot”. A független nyugat-afrikai állam felszabadult a múlttól, a hatvanas évek szabadságában pezseg. Önbizalom, lelkesedés, „világmegváltó” öncélú viták, szabadszerelem. A kivonult gyarmatosítók pénzes állásaiba pottyant új elit tobzódik. De a háttérben gazdasági és politikai érdekek, a múlt öröksége feszülnek egymásnak, izzik az előítélet, a gyűlölet. Polgárháborúba sodródik az ország, az igbók tartománya Biafra néven kiválik Nigériából. A hidegháború idején a világhatalmak összefognak a „szakadár” Biafra ellen. Adichie a majd három évig tartó polgárháború hétköznapjait eleveníti fel, olykor megrendítő tisztasággal és egyszerűséggel. A két pár megpróbáltatásai, kitartásuk egymás mellett, Ugwu mesterien megragadott fejlődése és a meglepő befejezés igazi jutalom az olvasónak.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half ​of a Yellow Sun
Winner ​of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. 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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
Ifemelu ​és Obinze szerelme a középiskolában kezdődött. Elérkezett a továbbtanulás ideje, s a diákok, ha csak tehetik, menekülnek a polgárháború utáni kilátástalan Nigériából. Ifemelu, a lány a princetoni egyetemen szerez rész-ösztöndíjat. Megélhetését megalázó módon tudja biztosítani, de barátokkal, jó emberekkel hozza össze a sors, és a jó emberek segítenek neki talpra állni. Életmód blogot indít Fajszabadítás -, avagy Egy nem amerikai fekete különféle megfigyelései a (korábban négernek nevezett) fekete amerikaiakról címmel, amelynek sikere fordulatot hoz az életébe. Szerelme, az Amerikáról ábrándozó Obinze az otthoni diploma megszerzése után Angliáig jut. Találkozik befogadó, türelmes, jó emberekkel, de rasszistával is. Az illegális bevándorló túlélő stratégiáival a szürke gazdaságban próbálkozik, de végül hazatoloncolják. Otthon aztán az új demokráciában megcsinálja a szerencséjét. Vagyonos lesz, igyekszik lelkiismeretét félig fehéren tartani a hazai üzleti élet mocsarában együtt úszol az árral, vagy lenyomnak. Vajon elfelejtik egymást a volt szerelmesek?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah ​(angol)
As ​teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze 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. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face? Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, ‘Americanah’ is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple ​Hibiscus
A ​haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer. When Nigeria begins to fall apart during a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to live with their aunt. In this house, full of energy and laughter, she discovers life and love - and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family. Centring on the promise of freedom and the pain and exhilaration of adolescence, _Purple Hibiscus_ is the extraordinary debut of a remarkable new talent. Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Todos ​deberíamos ser feministas
Un ​libro que recoge el trascendental y emblemático discurso que dio la autora en su TEDx Talk sobre lo que significa ser feminista en el siglo XXI. Ser feminista no es solo cosa de mujeres. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie lo demuestra en este elocuente y perspicaz texto, en el que nos brinda una definición singular de lo que significa ser feminista en el siglo XXI. Con un estilo claro y directo, y sin dejar de lado el humor, esta carismática autora explora el papel de la mujer actual y apunta ideas para hacer de este mundo un lugar más justo. «Hoy me gustaría pedir que empecemos a soñar con un plan para un mundo distinto. Un mundo más justo. Un mundo de hombres y mujeres más felices y más honestos consigo mismos. Y esta es la forma de empezar: tenemos que criar a nuestras hijas de otra forma. Y también a nuestros hijos.»

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Dear ​Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
From ​the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions--compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive--for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We ​Should All Be Feminists
What ​does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - The ​Thing Around Your Neck
From ​Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of _Half of a Yellow Sun,_ come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In 'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In 'Tomorrow Is Too Far', a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death. The young mother at the center of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.