I find myself picking up books without any prior knowledge about its content nor about the author, actually I chose this book after I saw J.M. Coetzee comment on the back and he’s the author of one of my favourite books, Age of Iron.
‘A beautiful and often harrowing story.’ Observer Books of the Year ‘A sensitive and touching story of a child exposed too early to religious intolerance and the uglier side of the Nigerian state.’ J. M. Coetzee ‘Political brutality and domestic violence, religion and witchcraft all merge with subtle force in this memorable novel. Chimammanda Ngozi Adichie uses childhood innocence to write Nigerian history with the eye of a family insider.’ Hugo Hamilton ‘Purple Hibiscus is the best debut I’ve read since Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.’ Jason Cowley, Times journalist, literary editor of the New Statesman ‘This debut ensnares the reader from the first page and lingers in the memory!in soft, searing voice, Adichie examines the complexities of family, faith and country through the haunted but hopeful eyes of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood.’ Publishers Weekly
It is set in Nigeria about a family of four, a strict Christian religious father, an obedient mother, and two siblings Jaja and Kambili. The story is in three sections, when an extreme event changes things at home, then how things were, and finally how it continues.
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