![]() ![]() Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins’ laughter rings throughout the house. ![]() Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home-a home that is silent and suffocating.Īs the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. ![]() ![]() They’re completely shielded from the troubles of the world. They live in beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of “ Half of a Yellow Sun” is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred – the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived.įifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. In this house, she discovers life and love – and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family. This book Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talk about when Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili’s father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. Description Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ![]()
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