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"One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation." ??Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home??a home that is silent and suffocating. As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father's authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins' laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together. Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom… (mais)
Protagonista e narradora de Hibisco roxo, a adolescente Kambili mostra como a religiosidade extremamente “branca” e católica de seu pai, Eugene, famoso industrial nigeriano, inferniza e destrói lentamente a vida de toda a família. O pavor de Eugene às tradições primitivas do povo nigeriano é tamanho que ele chega a rejeitar o pai, contador de histórias encantador, e a irmã, professora universitária esclarecida, temendo o inferno. Mas, apesar de sua clara violência e opressão, Eugene é benfeitor dos pobres e, estranhamente, apoia o jornal mais progressista do país. Durante uma temporada na casa de sua tia, Kambili acaba se apaixonando por um padre que é obrigado a deixar a Nigéria, por falta de segurança e de perspectiva de futuro. Enquanto narra as aventuras e desventuras de Kambili e de sua família, o romance também apresenta um retrato contundente e original da Nigéria atual, mostrando os remanescentes invasivos da colonização tanto no próprio país, como, certamente, também no resto do continente.
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For Professor James Nwoye Adichie and Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie, my parents, my heroes, ndi o ga-adili mma
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation." ??Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home??a home that is silent and suffocating. As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father's authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins' laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together. Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom
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Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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