The Thing Around your Neck
Book - 2009
Random House, Inc.
These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — the Orange Broadband Prize–winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun — are her most intimate works to date.
In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the United States. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman, and the young mother at the centre of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home.
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie’s prodigious literary powers.
These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — the Orange Broadband Prize–winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun — are her most intimate works to date.
In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the United States. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman, and the young mother at the centre of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home.
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie’s prodigious literary powers.
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Publisher:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9780307397898
9780307271075
0307271072
9780307271075
0307271072
Branch Call Number:
ADI SHORT STORIES
ADI SHORT STORIES
ADI SHORT STORIES
Characteristics:
217 p. ; 22 cm
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Add a CommentRec by Grace Cassels Nov 2020
This is more than a Nigerian immigrant experience. It's a reflection on how stories about what Nigeria looks like are being told; it's about how colonialism and violence go hand in hand and uproot the Nigerian culture; it's about the disillusionment with American dream at the realities of life in America.
It makes me think a lot about my own culture heritage and the complex relationship with American culture. Highly recommended.
After reading Americanah, I have really come to enjoy this author's style. I really liked these short stories. She writes with a lot of detail and is a talented author.
I'm normally not a short story fan but having had a very good friend from Nigeria who was educated in both Nigeria and the UK and later worked in the US these stories really struck a cord.
Short stories are a tough genre and I usually don’t enjoy every one in a collection but these were spectacular. Real, poignant and filled with vibrant people, places and emotions, these stories dealt with both native Nigerians and immigrants to America. Adichie is a master story teller.
This is the third book I've read by Adichie, and my favorite so far. The characters in the stories are fascinating individuals and no two stories are the same. The author sets the stories in both the city and the suburbs, and in the liminal places where people are often invisible. Like the best short story collections, I wanted more time with each set of characters, but was also satisfied with the fragments I was fed.
Elegantly written collection of authentic short stories. Easy to devour while gaining insight to culture shifting and the African diaspora.
Title for May 2015
these are wonderful short by the author, read them ,you won't regret it
Love this author!