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Original Title:	The Thing Around Your Neck
ISBN:	0307271072 (ISBN13: 9780307271075)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2009), O. Henry Award for 'The American Embassy' (2003), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2010)

The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hardcover | Pages: 218 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 25731 Users | 2451 Reviews

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Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore Sun), with "prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes" (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her "the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe." Her award-winning Half of a Yellow Sun became an instant classic upon its publication three years later, once again putting her tremendous gifts - graceful storytelling, knowing compassion, and fierce insight into her characters' hearts - on display. Now, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.

In "A Private Experience," a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In "Tomorrow is Too Far," a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death. The young mother at the center of "Imitation" finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to reexamine them.

Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. The Thing Around Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious literary powers of one of our most essential writers.

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Title	:	The Thing Around Your Neck
Author	:	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 218 pages
Published	:	June 16th 2009 by Knopf (first published June 23rd 2008)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Contemporary. Western Africa. Nigeria. Literature. African Literature

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3.5 stars.A short story collection that is loosely linked by its emotional connections to Nigeria, I found most of the stories to be insightful and very well written. A breakdown of each story:Cell One - A story about a family who live in a closed off university town and everyone knows everyone. It centres around Nnamabia, a roguish young man who finds himself at the mercy of a brutal and violent police force following accusations of cult involvement. I liked the family dynamics in this one but

The Thing Around Your Neck is the second work of Adichie's that I've read, the first being the magnificent Americanah. This collection touches on a lot of same themes as that wonderful novel: the struggle of women in present day Nigeria, the plight of African immigrants in America. It also showcases her acute understanding of human relationships. Her stories feel important - you get the sense that you have learned something new about the world from each of them.These vibrant, lyrical tales are

In most short story collection there are are always some stories that are better than others. Sometimes gap isn't that big (Liu's Paper menagerie and other stories, anything by Bradbury) but there are obvious favorites and weak links and there are those that involve full spectrum from bad to brilliant (any short story collection from Neil Gaiman). This is first time I read collection that I would rate every short story same. Everything is 4 stars range with no clear favorite and no clear weakest

As usual, Adichie didn't disappoint.

She's the Queen, our literary Beyonce who delivers the goods with an earlier collection of short stories. You can see here the briefest of outlines that will become Americanah later. Confidently African stories told with a measured awareness of Western sensibilities. That storyteller voice that gently leads you across the page with a sharp eye and wry line. Adichie is so adept at alluding to deeper themes with a light touch that doesn't slow down your reading. If I'm going to quibble the stories

4.25 stars.Good Lord, this collection of short stories is beautifully written. They're all compelling. They're all full of wonderful characters. They're all incredibly full of emotion. Every single one of them felt like it could have been fleshed out into a full length novel. And all of them had such an incredible sense of place and community and the immigrant experience. Glorious, from start to finish.

Shameless, brazen and lazy, I'm going to pinch the comment on the front of my edition: "Adichie makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong."Will that do?I can add on some of those typical enthusiasms: stunning, exquisite, you know, you'll have used them yourself at some point. If you weren't entirely convinced by Adichie as a novelist (I was, fairly, but maybe not quite enough), try these short stories. They have certainly convinced me that I need to catch up with the rest of her oeuvre. Oh