From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love and race centred around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home. Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today's globalized world.
A novel about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred.
A novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race – and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
A novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race – and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
Twin dramas informed by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul.
