Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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September 15, 1977
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Enugu, Nigeria
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie avg rating 4.16 — 2,151 ratings — published 2006 24 editions |
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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie avg rating 3.89 — 1,300 ratings — published 2003 21 editions |
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The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie avg rating 3.97 — 199 ratings — published 2009 9 editions |
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The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1988 2 editions |
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One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lahiri avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 2009 |
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Mechanics Institute Review: Issue 6 by Russell Celyn Jones, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Peter Ho Davies, Richard Milward, Jean McNeil avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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"I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there."
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. "
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun)
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun)
"'You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.'"
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun)
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun)
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