Purple Hibiscus (PDF)
Synopsis
The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious fath. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer. When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends her to live with her aunt. In this house, noisy and full of laughter, she discovers life and love - and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family. This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun', is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred - the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived.Book details
- Author:
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- ISBN:
- 9780007189885
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780007189885
- Publisher:
- Harper Perennial
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Grades:
- Year 10 - 4th Form - KS4, Year 11 - 5th Form - KS4
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2016-05-13
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2005
- Copyright by:
- Harper Perennial
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction