Purple hibiscus

R$ 92,90

Sinopse

A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer. She lives in fear of his violence and the words in her textbooks begin to turn to blood in front of her eyes.When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father, involved in mysterious ways with the unfolding political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to their aunt's. The house is noisy and full of laughter. Here she discovers love and a life – dangerous and heathen – beyond the confines of her father's authority. The visit will lift the silence from her world and, in time, reveal a terrible, bruising secret at the heart of her family life.This first novel is about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new; between childhood and adulthood; between love and hatred. An extraordinary debut, ‘Purple Hibiscus’ is a compelling novel which captures both a country and an adolescence at a time of tremendous change.

Participantes

Autor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Autor

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977, Abba, Nigéria) é nome de proa da literatura africana. Aos dezenove anos Adichie mudou-se para os Estados Unidos, onde foi bolsista na Universidade de Princeton. Purple Hibiscus (2003) e Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), pelo qual venceu o Orange Prize de 2007, têm como tema a guerra em Biafra, que entre 1967 e 1970 matou mais de 1 milhão de pessoas. Crítica da forma como a imprensa costuma tratar a África, Chimamanda mostra que a insistência na imagem do africano despossuído e carente esconde uma parcela expressiva e atuante da população, cuja voz merece ser ouvida com mais freqüência.