Americanah

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.
From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' a powerful story of love, race and identity.
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?
Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning 'Americanah' is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today's globalized world.

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE is the author of Purple Hibiscus, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Winner of Winners" award; and Americanah, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her books have been translated into fifty six languages, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta,and Financial Times. She grew up in Nigeria and divides her time between there and the United States.