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Chinelo Okparanta

Under the Udala Trees

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“If you’ve ever wondered if love can conquer all, read [this] stunning coming-of-age debut.” — Marie Claire
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Named a Best Book of the Year by
NPR * BuzzFeed * Bustle * Shelf Awareness * Publishers Lunch
“[This] love story has hypnotic power.”—The New Yorker

Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does. Born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls. But when their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself—and there is a cost to living inside a lie.
Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Chinelo Okparanta shows us, in “graceful and precise” prose (New York Times Book Review), how the struggles and divisions of a nation are inscribed on the souls of its citizens. “Powerful and heartbreaking, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply moving commentary on identity, prejudice, and forbidden love” (BuzzFeed).
“An important and timely read, imbued with both political ferocity and mythic beauty.” Bustle
“A real talent. [Under the Udala Trees is] the kind of book that should have come with a cold compress kit. It’s sad and sensual and full of heat.” — John Freeman, Electric Literature
“Demands not just to be read, but felt.” — Edwidge Danticat 
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319 бумажных страниц
Дата публикации оригинала
2015
Год выхода издания
2015
Издательства
HarperCollins, Mariner Books
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  • jenny3sommyцитируетв прошлом году
    There is no way to tell the story of what happened with Amina without first telling the story of Mama’s sending me off. Likewise, there is no way to tell the story of Mama’s sending me off without also telling of Papa’s refusal to go to the bunker. Without his refusal, the sending away might never have occurred, and if the sending away had not occurred, then I might never have met Amina.
  • Refiloe Masitaцитирует3 года назад
    Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for,
    the evident demonstration of realities, though not beheld.

    —HEBREWS 11:1
  • Refiloe Masitaцитирует3 года назад
    aith is the assured expectation of things hoped for,
    the evident demonstration of realities, though not beheld.

    —HEBREWS 11:1
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