Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (23 kníh)
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah ENFrom the award-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun,’ a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie AmericanahAs teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Amerikána CZSilný příběh o lásce, rasových otázkách a identitě Ifemelu a Obinze, dva mladí lidé z Lagosu, se do sebe zamilují. Jejich vlast Nigérie trpí pod nadvládou vojenské diktatury a každý, kdo může, se snaží uprchnout. Sebejistá Ifemelu se vydává do Ameriky, kde zakouší porážky i vítězství, nachází a ztrácí další lásky, to vše pod tlakem něčeho, nad čím doma nikdy nepřemýšlela — rasové otázky. Obinze, kterého Amerika,…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie AmerikánkaJe tam láska, je tam humor a je tam aj kritika spoločnosti. Mimoriadne úspešný román Chimamandy Ngozi Adichie rozpráva o dvoch mladých Nigérijčanoch, ktorí sa rozhodnú opustiť svoju vlasť. Ona odchádza do Ameriky, on do Veľkej Británie. Amerikánka je silná kniha o láske, ktorá otvára otázky rasizmu, ale aj identity. Čo ich napokon napriek úspešnému životu prinúti opustiť vysnívaný svet a pomýšľať na návrat domov?
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie AmerikánkaV USA ju nazývali „černoškou“, a keď sa vrátila domov do Nigérie, dostala meno „Amerikánka“. Kým teda vlastne je? A kde je jej skutočné miesto? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie je skutočnou hviezdou nielen súčasnej svetovej literatúry, ale prerazila aj do popkultúry. Jej myšlienky sa dostali do textov piesní Beyoncé i na tričká módnej značky Dior. Mimoriadnu pozornosť si získali jej prednášky v rámci platformy TED, ako aj…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dear IjeaweleFrom the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today – written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from ...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions ENFrom the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today – written as a letter to a friend. I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing. What matters is that you try. In We…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Feminismus je pro každéhoSe slovem feministka se většina lidí poprvé setká jako s urážkou. Nemají rády muže, pálí podprsenky, baží po moci, chtějí rozvrátit „tradiční“ rodinu. Alespoň takovou zkušenost má úspěšná nigerijská spisovatelka Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieová...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun ENIn 1960s, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as as housebouy for a university lecturer. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. The third is Richard, a shy Englishman in thrall to Olanna´s enigmatic twin sister. When the shocking horror of the war engulfs them, their…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun ENWinner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. Now a major film starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, due for release in 2014. In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, goes to work for Odenigbo, a radical university professor. Soon they are joined by Olanna, a young woman who has abandoned a life of privilege to live with…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow SunA heartbreaking, exquisitely written masterpiece. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. In
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Milá Ijeawele aneb Feministický manifest v patnácti doporučeníchNa spisovatelku Chimamandu Ngozi Adichieovou se před několika lety obrátila přítelkyně z dětství s otázkou, jak má vychovat dceru v duchu feminismu. Adichieová jí odpověděla dopisem. V knížce Milá Ijeawele, která je poupravenou verzí tohoto dopisu...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus ENA haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer. When Nigeria begins…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus ENLonglisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study,…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Všetci by sme mali byť feminist(k)ami„Čo vlastne v súčasnosti znamená feminizmus?“ pýta sa nás slávna esej, ktorú vo svojom hite citovala aj popová diva Beyoncé. Úderný titul tejto eseje, ktorý v origináli znie We Should All Be Feminists, sa dostal aj na odevy kolekcie značky Dior. Keď tenistka Dominika Cibulková zverejnila na Instagrame fotku v tričku s týmto nápisom, zniesla sa na ňu vlna kritiky a mnohí fanúšikovia jej odporúčali, aby radšej rodila…
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists ENWhat does “feminism” mean today? In this personal, eloquently argued essay – adapted from her much-admired Tedx talk of the same name – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable…
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