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A promising new voice from Nigeria delivers an exquisite and powerful first novel about a 15-year-old Nigerian woman who is awakening at a time when both her country and family are on the cusp of change. [예스24 제공]
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- Hardcover 307 Pages
- Edition: 1st
- ISBN-10: 1565123875
- ISBN-13: 9781565123878
- Publisher: Algonquin Books
- Pub date: Oct 30, 2003
- Also available as: Paperback and Others

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Beautiful coming of age story of a young African girl who escapes her fathers repressive, fanatically religious home when she is forced to live with her aunt and cousins.
Purple Hibiscus is a beautiful story. The plot is based on a teenage girl who grew up under the stifling patronage of a stern father. Her domineering father frequently physically abused his family alongside her, creating terror at home. Against the backdrop of life in Nigeria as it undergoes a milit ... Continue
Purple Hibiscus is a beautiful story. The plot is based on a teenage girl who grew up under the stifling patronage of a stern father. Her domineering father frequently physically abused his family alongside her, creating terror at home. Against the backdrop of life in Nigeria as it undergoes a military coup, the life Kambili knows is shattered and she has to seek refuge in the home of her aunt. Kambili the sheltered but highly restricted child, who never thought of herself as lucky and who had earlier been absconded by her peers and cousin because of her supposedly privileges, learns to assert herself and becomes a beloved character, a character who easily understood the plight of those around her.. Kambili at first came to terms with her father as someone who regarded himself as a pillar of the community and someone she genuinely loved. Even the emotional and physical pains he inflicted are seen only as a gesture of love for her own good, but later she comes to consider his actions as abnormal. Really enjoyed this.
Molto, molto ben scritto. Veramente..
sto leggendo la versione in inglese
bellissimo esordio per questa brava scrittrice nigeriana. Romanzo di memoria direi, la situazione politica del paese in cui vive si mischia ad una storia familiare opprimente.La tradizione, il cattolicesimo borghese,fela kuti ed il regime....commovente. Un libro che ha molto da dare