01966cam a2200397 i 4500 794366985 MeVbMML 20230201111031.0 121219s2013 nyu 000 f eng 2012043875 9780307271082 0307271080 (OCoLC)794366985 AJM pcc f-nr--- n-us--- e-uk-en 823/.92 23 A2273 .a Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- author 12928 Americanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie First edition New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013 477 pages ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier This novel tells a story of love, race and identity centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home. A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected. 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. Obinze, the son of a professor hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous undocumented life in London Immigrants Fiction 9971 Refugees Fiction 12929 Nigerians United States Fiction 12930 Nigerians England Fiction 12931 Nigeria Fiction 12932 Fiction. lcgft 48 .b103744009 ddc BOOK 28655 28655 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2023-02-01 28.95 1 ADIC 64135 2023-02-10 2023-02-02 2023-02-01 BOOK 1