Catalogue record
000735634X 
Americanah
Publication year: 2014
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Classification: AF
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780007356348 000735634X
Notes:
Baileys Women's Prize for fiction Longlist 2014
Baileys Women's Prize for fiction Shortlist 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 lo
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Several members of the group were initially put off by the length of the book and the small print, but all found they were drawn in as they continued to read. It is an age-old story of two lovers who have very different but comparative experiences of living and surviving in another country. It gives a new perspective on racism, particularly in the US. We all enjoyed it, and would rate it 7/8.
17/04/17