The thing around your neck
- primera edición
- 232 páginas.
CONTENTS Cell One -- 3 Imitation -- 22 A Private Experience -- 43 Ghosts -- 57 On Monday of Last Week -- 74 Jumping Monkey Hill -- 95 The Thing Arond Your Neck -- 115 The American Embassy -- 128 The Shivering -- 142 The Arrangers of Marriage -- 167 Tomorrow Is Too Far -- 187 The Headstrong Historian -- 198
Stunning. Like all fine storytellers, she leaves us wanting more The Times From the author of the bestselling Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus come twelve brilliant new stories. Of motherhood and mistresses; love and dislocation; violence and faith; the moments of everyday epiphany that illuminate the beauty and desperation of ordinary lives. A remarkable collection combining Adichie's poise, assurance and coolly understated style. The perfect riposte to anyone who believes short stories can't be every bit as involving as novels Daily Mail The writing throughout the book has a verve that propels you forward through the pages. And a pervasive, lightly mocking intelligence gives the whole thing a lively, satirical edge Guardian A powerful writer, moving with disquieting ease from humour to horror, and anger to tenderness.