Purple Hibiscus: A Novel  enlarge Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher: Anchor Category: Book List Price: $14.95 Buy New: $7.83 as of 2/8/2012 14:17 CST details You Save: $7.12 (48%) New (57) Used (92) Collectible (1) from $4.28 Seller: Amazon.com Sales Rank: 8141 Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published) Media: Paperback Pages: 307 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 ISBN: 1400076943 EAN: 9781400076949 ASIN: 1400076943 Publication Date: September 14, 2004 Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Also Available In:   •  Paperback - PURPLE HIBISCUS   •  Hardcover - Purple Hibiscus. [Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie] (Collins Readers)   •  Unknown Binding - Purple Hibiscus: A Novel [Paperback]   •  Library Binding - Purple Hibiscus   •  Hardcover - Purple Hibiscus   •  Paperback - Purple Hibiscus   •  Paperback - Purple Hibiscus (P.S.)   •  Paperback - Purple Hibiscus: A Novel   •  Hardcover - Purple Hibiscus   •  Paperback - Purple Hibiscus.   •  Hardcover - Purple Hibiscus   •  Audio CD - Purple Hibiscus (Abridged)   •  Paperback - Purple Hibiscus   •  Audio Cassette - Purple Hibiscus   •  Audio CD - Purple Hibiscus   •  Paperback - Purple Hibiscus (The Perennial Collection)   •  Turtleback - Purple Hibiscus   •  Hardcover - Purple Hibiscus. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Similar Items: Half of a Yellow Sun The Thing Around Your Neck Things Fall Apart Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club) The Inheritance of Loss Editorial Reviews: Product Description Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father sends her and her brother away to stay with their aunt, a University professor, whose house is noisy and full of laughter. There, Kambili and her brother discover a life and love beyond the confines of their father's authority. The visit will lift the silence from their world and, in time, give rise to devotion and defiance that reveal themselves in profound and unexpected ways. This is a book about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between childhood and adulthood; between love and hatred, between the old gods and the new.  Amazon.com Review Purple Hibiscus, Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's debut, begins like many novels set in regions considered exotic by the western reader: the politics, climate, social customs, and, above all, food of Nigeria (balls of fufu rolled between the fingers, okpa bought from roadside vendors) unfold like the purple hibiscus of the title, rare and fascinating. But within a few pages, these details, however vividly rendered, melt into the background of a larger, more compelling story of a joyless family. Fifteen-year-old Kambili is the dutiful and self-effacing daughter of a rich man, a religious fanatic and domestic tyrant whose public image is of a politically courageous newspaper publisher and philanthropist. No one in Papa's ancestral village, where he is titled "Omelora" (One Who Does For the Community), knows why Kambili¹s brother cannot move one of his fingers, nor why her mother keeps losing her pregnancies. When a widowed aunt takes an interest in Kambili, her family begins to unravel and re-form itself in unpredictable ways. --Regina Marler

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