Purple Hibiscus (P.S.)

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Paperback , Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Great condition for a used book!

Shipped to over one million happy customers. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria.

They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. The readers witness her coming of age as she navigates growing up in a very rigid, religious, fairly wealthy family and surviving her father's oppressive and violent nature. As we watch her grow up and begin to understand the ways of her family, we can connect them to the nature of her government being that it is a dictatorship as well.

Additionally, the British colonial influence has a severe hold over Kambili's family and her father as it dictates the way in which they live and view their lives. They are restricted from speaking Igbo and they must excel in their missionary education. Kambili's faith or spirituality is a major part of the novel and an aspect of her life that I found extremely intriguing. Reading about her journey of faith and the people she was influenced by really made me think about how faith is interpreted differently by each individual.

She showed appreciation for and celebration of Nigeria, resisting the mystification and other descriptions that have been used by colonial writers. She does similar work to Chinua Achebe as she infuses the Igbo language and the English language and writes her own version of the history of colonialism and its effects. Her work also shows similarity with the work of Tsitsi Dangarembga as she using a coming of age story to highlight the acquired hybridity and other elements of postcolonial identity. I would definitely recommend this book!

This is a memorable coming-of-age novel, Adichie's first. It takes place during the military dictatorship of the 's, whose oppressive shadow is everywhere. Fifteen-year old Kambili belongs a privileged sector of Nigerian Igbo Catholic society, but is far from privileged. In its focus on suffocating religion and patriarchy Purple Hibiscus reminded me of the novels of Miriam Toews on growing up as a rebel Mennonite , but Kambili's father is more of a monster than anyone in Toews' books, abusive as he was abused as a boy by colonial priests.

Politics and religion dominate the novel. Nearly every character resists the military regime and its violent enforcers in some way, whether by open rebellion or quiet survival. Fuel shortages dominate daily life; grocery shopping trips are planned around the last gallon of gas. The university where her aunt teaches is shut down following student uprisings. I loved the landscapes, the humor, the flowers and foods. Skip to main content.

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Purple Hibiscus (P.S.)

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