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Americanah

"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--Provided by publisher.

Main Author: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
Corporate Author: Recorded Books, LLC., W.F. Howes, Ltd.
Other Authors: Andoh, Adjoa. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2014], p2013.
Edition: Unabridged, [Recorded Books ed.].
Subjects:
Immigrants > Fiction.
Refugees > Fiction.
Nigerians > United States > Fiction.
Nigerians > England > Fiction.
Nigeria > Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Summary: "A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--Provided by publisher.
Item Description: Compact disc.
Title from container.
Release date supplied by publisher.
Recording originally produced by W.F. Howes Ltd., p2013.
In container (17 cm.).
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Physical Description: 15 sound discs (17 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781470388911
147038891X
Author Notes: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria on September 15, 1977. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half before moving to the United States, where she studied communication at Drexel University for two years. She received a bachelor's degree in communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2001, a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, and a master's degree in African Studies from Yale University in 2008.

Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was published in 2003 and received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2005. Her other books include The Thing around Your Neck, Americanah, and We Should All Be Feminist. Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize in 2007. She was awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize, for her body of work that shows 'outstanding literary merit'.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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