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Purple Hibiscus - Grand Format
Edition en anglais
Résumé
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father sends her and her brother to stay with their aunt. Here she discovers love and a life beyond the confines of her father's authority. The visit will lift the silence from her world and, in time, reveal a terrible, bruising secret at the heart of her family. Now a set text for AQA GCSE.
Caractéristiques
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Date de parution22/02/2010
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Editeur
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CollectionCollins Readers
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ISBN978-0-00-734532-8
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EAN9780007345328
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FormatGrand Format
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PrésentationRelié
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Nb. de pages307 pages
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Poids0.404 Kg
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Dimensions12,6 cm × 19,3 cm × 2,5 cm
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Biographie de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007 with her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Purple Hibiscus is her first novel and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2004 and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, longlisted for the Booker Prize and was winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy award for debut fiction. Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is from Abba, in Anambra State, but grew up in the university town of Nsukka, where she attended primary and secondary schools.Her short fiction has been published in literary journals including Granta, and won the International PEN/David Wong award in 2003. She was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University for the 2005-6 academic year. She lives in Nigeria.