Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ISBN 13: 9780307455925

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker , Granta , The O. Henry Prize Stories , the Financial Times , and Zoetrope: All-Story . She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus , which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun , which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and, most recently, the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck . A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.