Fiction
PURPLE HIBISCUS
Description
The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup, Kambili's father sends her to live with her aunt. There, she discovers life and love and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family. I canno control even th dreams that I h made. Enthralling and deeply moving, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's debut novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Women's Prize, announcing her as one of the most exciting writers of our time.