Americanah

One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year

LONGLISTED 2015 - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.

As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu--beautiful, self-assured--departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze--the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor--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.

Years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion--for their homeland and for each other--they will face the toughest decisions of their lives.
Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's most powerful and astonishing novel yet.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 05/14/2013
ISBN: 9780307271082
Pages: 477
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.52w x 1.56d
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Finalist
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence - Finalist
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/25/2013
Booklist 04/01/2013 pg. 18
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2013
Library Journal 05/01/2013 pg. 67
Essence 06/01/2013 pg. 57
Entertainment Weekly 05/17/2013 pg. 76
Shelf Awareness 05/24/2013
New York Times Book Review 06/09/2013 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 06/16/2013 pg. 28
Books & Culture 11/01/2013 pg. 29
Essence 12/01/2013 pg. 82
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/08/2013 pg. 26
New York Times Book Review 12/15/2013 pg. 12
Entertainment Weekly 12/13/2013 pg. 59
Entertainment Weekly 12/27/2013 pg. 94
Entertainment Weekly 01/24/2014 pg. 21
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2014 pg. 10
Entertainment Weekly 03/07/2014 pg. 69
BookPage 05/01/2013