Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The author of the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus presents her newest novel Americanah, a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria facing challenges in the countries they come to call home.

In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend private school. But, through Kambili's eyes, we see that their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man has impossible expectations of his children and his wife, and if things don't go his way he becomes physically abusive....

The author presents a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father.

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's collection of stories focuses on life's many clashes like tradition with modernity and African cultures with America.

Two sisters are caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war.

With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history. Half a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of promise, hope, and dissappointment of the Biafran war.