
The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate & the dictates of her fanatically religious father Her life is regulated by schedules prayer sleep study prayer When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup Kambili's father involved mysteriously in the political crisis sends her to live with her aunt In this house noisy & full of laughter she discovers life & love
- & a terrible bruising secret deep within her family This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie author of Half of a Yellow Sun' is about the blurred lines between the old gods & the new childhood & adulthood love & hatred
- the grey spaces in which truths are revealed & real life is lived