Winner · National Book Critics Circle Awards 2013
Americanah
novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- historical fiction
- Pages
- 592
- ISBN
- 9780606367219
- Subjects
- Nigerians, Immigrants, Refugees, African-Americans, literary fiction, African-American fiction, cultural heritage, Fiction
