The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Taste attributes: dramahistoricalslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticsimplelinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringfish out of water/culture clashsocial commentarycomplex relationship
Boxlist takeRealistic and stirring: a heavy novel, small-scale rather than epic. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore Sun), with "prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes" (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her "the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe." Her award-winning Half of a Yellow Sun...
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- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 224
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