Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?įearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalised world. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. 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. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014.įrom the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.Īs teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love.
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