Americanah
20 hrs. 47 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrator
Alexey Bagdasarov
Narrator
Alexey Bagdasarov
Description
The third novel by Nigerian prose writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who has already won more than one literary award for her previous books, is the most ambitious both in terms of time and geography and in the range of ideas and problems that Adichie was able to cover masterfully and engagingly.
A novel about what an educated person feels—an “outsider from the second world”—when they end up in the USA or London, and about what awaits them at home if they decide to return. Even as teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fell in love, and they didn’t care about the dictatorship in their native country, the ominous atmosphere of universal suppression and fear. But after finishing school, the beauty Ifemelu left for America to study, where a new world awaited her—full of joys and unfamiliar problems.
She gradually gets used to the country, finds success and suffers setbacks, starts relationships and loses them—and home starts to feel more and more distant. Sensible Obinze, from a professor’s family, planned to follow his beloved, but the events of September 11 put an end to his plans to move to America. He ends up in London, where he lives a dangerous life as an illegal immigrant. Years go by, and now Obinze is a wealthy man living in his home country, where he is valued and respected. Meanwhile, Ifemelu has become a successful journalist, and her blog about immigrant life in America is extremely popular.
It would seem that everything is fine for both of them, but that’s only the beginning…
An engaging, bitter, and sometimes funny novel spanning three continents and many fates, it brings to mind not only Adichie’s previous novel “Half of a Yellow Sun,” but also “The Cutting Stone” by Abraham Verghese and “And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini. Probably the main conversation in this novel is about how we live and change our own idea of homeland and home—about the shades of partings and returns.
A novel about what an educated person feels—an “outsider from the second world”—when they end up in the USA or London, and about what awaits them at home if they decide to return. Even as teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fell in love, and they didn’t care about the dictatorship in their native country, the ominous atmosphere of universal suppression and fear. But after finishing school, the beauty Ifemelu left for America to study, where a new world awaited her—full of joys and unfamiliar problems.
She gradually gets used to the country, finds success and suffers setbacks, starts relationships and loses them—and home starts to feel more and more distant. Sensible Obinze, from a professor’s family, planned to follow his beloved, but the events of September 11 put an end to his plans to move to America. He ends up in London, where he lives a dangerous life as an illegal immigrant. Years go by, and now Obinze is a wealthy man living in his home country, where he is valued and respected. Meanwhile, Ifemelu has become a successful journalist, and her blog about immigrant life in America is extremely popular.
It would seem that everything is fine for both of them, but that’s only the beginning…
An engaging, bitter, and sometimes funny novel spanning three continents and many fates, it brings to mind not only Adichie’s previous novel “Half of a Yellow Sun,” but also “The Cutting Stone” by Abraham Verghese and “And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini. Probably the main conversation in this novel is about how we live and change our own idea of homeland and home—about the shades of partings and returns.
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