The Thing Around Your Neck

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In 'A Private Experience,' a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In 'Tomorrow Is Too Far,' a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death. The young mother at the center of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.

ISBN 0007305982   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780007305988 (What's this?)   Pages 300 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers   Weight (grammes) 499 Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 240 Publication date 02 Apr 2009   Width (mm) 159 DEWEY 823.92   Academic level General

		Cell One		3
		Imitation		22
		A Private Experience		43
		Ghosts		57
		On Monday of Last Week		74
		Jumping Monkey Hill		95
		The Thing Around Your Neck		115
		The American Embassy		128
		The Shivering		142
		The Arrangers of Marriage		167
		Tomorrow Is Too Far		187
		The Headstrong Historian		198

'Her writing is clear-eyed and fresh, her characters simply drawn!Adichie writes with a cool detachment that allows her to plunder grief and stereotype to brilliant effect.' Times 'Adichie is a skilled storyteller with a fluid, straightforward style and while some of the stories feel constrained by their length, the majority are perfectly balanced.' Observer

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