“\u2018A delicious, important novel\u2019 The Times \u2018Alert, alive and gripping\u2019 Independent \u2018Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both\u2019 Guardian ‘A delicious, important novel’ THE TIMES \u2018Alert, alive and gripping\u2019 INDEPENDENT \u2018Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both\u2019 GUARDIAN Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. In America, Ifemelu suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Meanwhile, Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion \u2013 for each other and for their homeland \u2013 they face the hardest decision of their lives. Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a literary masterpiece, and one of the defining books of the decade. ‘A love story for our time’ VOGUE \u2018A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say\u2019 OBSERVER ‘A tour de force. Hugely impressive’ MAIL ON SUNDAY”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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