The Thing Around Your Neck
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At the moment, we only deliver to customers in Ibadan and Abuja. If you will like to have books delivered to you anywhere else in Nigeria, please visit our konga store to make your order.A remarkable collection combining Adichie's poise, assurance and coolly understated style. The perfect riposte to anyone who believes short stories cant be every bit as involving as novels. (Daily Mail).
The writing throughout the book has a verve that propels you forward through the pages. And a pervasive, lightly mocking intelligence gives the whole thing a lively satirical edge. (Guardian).
The Thing Around your Neck with its warm and sympathetic heroines and its finely cadenced prose, demonstrates that Adichie is keeping faith with her talent and her country. (The Times).
A dazzling accomplished debut collection explores the ties that binds parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who will greet you at home" , a National Magazine Award finalist for the New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of her hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild", a disastrous night out shifts a teena..
When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her Aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter , she discovers life and love - and a terrible bruising secret deep within her family. This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun is about the blurred lines between th..
