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.
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Americanah. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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.
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Reviewed by RebekkaGutes Buch um über die Realitäten von Schwarzen Personen, die in westl. Staaten (USA, GB) auswandern und versuchen sich ein Leben aufzubauen. Macht Erfahrungen von Rassismus und Diskriminierung nahbarer. Must read für white people.