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Title	:	Purple Hibiscus
Author	:	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	April 17th 2012 by Algonquin Books (first published October 30th 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction. Western Africa. Nigeria. Contemporary. Literature. African Literature. Literary Fiction

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Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home—a home that is silent and suffocating.

As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins’ laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.

Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.

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Original Title:	Purple Hibiscus
ISBN:	1616202416 (ISBN13: 9781616202415)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Kambili, Jaja, Eugene, Beatrice...
Setting:	Nigeria
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2004), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2004), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2004), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction (2004), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Overall (2005)

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3.5 starsKambili is fifteen, living at home with her brother, Jaja, her mother and her father, a wealthy businessman. Their home life though affluent and seemingly stable is an unhappy one with Kambili, Jaja and their mother walking on eggshells, living with the physically and emotionally abusive father, a religious, fanatical tyrant. Nigeria, politically unstable at this time, succumbs to a military coup.This is author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's debut. The writing is flowing, easy to follow,

3.5 starsThere is something unique yet familiar about this coming of age story.Kambili and her brother Jaja grows up in luxury with a highly respected father during a time period where Nigeria is under military reign. But behind closed doors this father rules with an iron fist and almost fanatical religious zeal.The atmosphere of living with an abusive parent was captured so well that it made the reading difficult at times. The author also shows the destructive nature of holding on to a belief

This was a great book to read. Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche combined Nigerian politics, religion, cuisine, traditional believes and industry in such a way that neither of the elements overshadowed the story of the fifteen-year old Kambili and her family. Although her father was religiously rigid, physically, mentally and emotionally abusive to the family, especially Kambili's mom, Adiche still showed his softer side of him caring for so many hundreds of people either openly or anonymously. Her

My official end-of-year project is reading backlist from authors I just fell in love with this year, and Adichies stunning debut novel got me off to a fantastic start. This is the story of 15-year-old Kambili and her brother Jaja. Their father is a Big Man in their Nigerian community. He is a devout Christian, and keeping his family on the narrow path of the faithful is his primary focus in life, no matter what it takes. He is verbally and physically abusive, and his family lives in fear of him.

Left me in tears. It's great to read a book and be reminded of the reasons you love to read. Can't wait to read more Adichie.

This book surprised me with how good it was. Id read plenty of praise for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so I knew her writing would be good, but I wasnt expecting it to blow me away like it did. This book earned an easy five stars for the way it effortlessly evoked strong emotion and changed my worldview. There is so much contained in just these 300-ish pages.Purple Hibiscus is a frighteningly realistic depiction of abuse. Protagonist Kambili is the teenage daughter of a wealthy Nigerian businessman

I was pleased to open this book as one of the picks during a year + with the "Postal Book Swap F" group. This is our second year send books around and the picks are entirely secret until everyone has seen everything. I had previously read and enjoyed Americanah and always thought I might go back and read Adichie's previous works. I also have Half of a Yellow Sun on my shelf, unread.I loved this story, and it resonated deeply because of my own experiences with my own father. And I think she does