Purple Hibiscus

inspirational new voice and
Purple Hibiscus
a book to read at all costs’
    Glasgow Herald
    ‘This is a novel that brings you into the heart of private passions. But it is also a novel that strays into political waters and does so with some subtlety’
    Natasha Walter,
Vogue
    ‘Adichie has an enviable mastery of narrative composition. Her characters are vivid. Her pacing is excellent. She has a keen sense of irony…Into her enthralling tale Adichie weaves complex themes…The result is a story which is racy but complex and stimulating. It grips the reader from start to finish. I could not put it down’
    Irish Times
    ‘The simplicity of the transformation tale – the stuff of many oldfashioned school stories – is made more powerful by the plot’s twists and surprises and by the endearing and moving characters…Its cleverly contrived naivety opens the reader to a world of feeling containing meaning’
    Sunday Times
    ‘This debut novel, in the best tradition of the coming-of-age novel, serves as a reminder of what serious, committed storytelling can do…Adichie draws us inside Kambili’s world through her rich descriptions of physical and domestic environments, her artful deployment of suspense and drama’
    Michèle Roberts,
New Statesman
    ‘Immensely powerful’
    The Times
    ‘A wonderful first novel…Chimamanda’s prose is strikingly rich and evocative in this touching and accomplished debut’
    INK
Magazine
    ‘An intoxicating story that is at once distinctly feminine, African and universal’
    OBSERVER

‘There’s a quiet confidence about the writing which is very attractive – it isn’t showy, it isn’t brash, but on the contrary both captivating and mature’
    MARGARET FORSTER
    ‘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
    ‘A beautifully judged account of the private intimate stirrings of a young girl…Adichie is a fresh new voice out of Africa’
    TELEGRAPH

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    First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate 2004
    Published in paperback by Harper Perennial 2005, reprinted 16 times
    Copyright © Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2004
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