This book is terrible. It hurts like a bitch in a very quiet, understated way, it does not have the grace of tying the themes in any of the expected or more hopeful ways, and does so in a excellently written way. "Beat me while I love you" much?... Feels like a meta-theme. There are: parallels bet...
There were elements I loved about this book, but an equal number of things that frustrated me. Let's start with the positives. The setting evoked a lot of nostalgia for me because I grew up in Enugu and holidayed in Nsukka, in the same university Kambili and Jaja stayed at, also roughly around the t...
I've read this before, but a book club picked it for July, so I read it again. It's still the same book I read in 2005 (says my kindle - who knows if that's correct?) One thing I adore: Adichie does a great thing in all of her books -- refuse to define terms others may not know, or may have to even ...
Summary: Purple Hibiscus, Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's debut, begins like many novels set in regions considered exotic by the western reader: the politics, climate, social customs, and, above all, food of Nigeria (balls of fufu rolled between the fingers, okpa bought from roadside...
58. PURPLE HIBISCUS, BY CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIERecommended by Lúcia Ramos on Goodreads. I bought Americanah, but for some reason never got to read it (it’s somewhere in the middle of my to-read pile). I couldn’t find it, no matter how hard I looked, and, since I got the recommendation, I thought th...
I really don't know what to say about Purple Hibiscus. I'm left with an empty feeling after reading it. On the plus side, I liked how it delved into the culture of Nigeria, and I liked how the close of the novel was open-ended but full of hope.But, and this is a big but, the main reason I didn't par...
Title: Purple Hibiscus Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adicihie Pages: 300+ Type: Library loan Summary: Fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous a...
The reason I love reading so much is always learning something new. In this book it was Nigeria, which I know nothing about apart from the snippets on the news occasionally. Purple Hibiscus is told through the eyes of a teenager and I read on another review that this novel is YA fiction. If so, it i...
Half of a Yellow Sun was the best book I’d read in a long time, so I was looking forward to reading the author’s other novel. Purple Hibiscus is a good book, but it’s one of those first novels that doesn’t really demonstrate the author’s true abilities.This book is narrated by Kambili, a 15-year-old...
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