Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (English) Hardcover Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for languageOn 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddys girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughters fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.A work of dignity and of unravelling GUARDIANAn exquisite howl of pain TELEGRAPH Author Biography Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction; and acclaimed story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, received numerous awards and was named one of New York Times Ten Books of the Year. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. Review Praise for Notes on GriefBoth emotional and austere, a work of dignity and of unravelling GuardianWith raw eloquence, Adichies observations have, simultaneously, an academic detachment and an inescapable anguish at being "in the centre of this churning" with "porous edges that there is no way through" … Notes on Grief is both achingly personal and stunningly familiar to anyone who has felt that scattering IndependentAn exquisite howl of pain written in the aftermath, last year, of the unexpected death of her father TelegraphNotes on Grief is a moving account of a daughters sorrow and it is also a love letter to the one who has gone. … She is saying dont go and she is saying goodbye and she is also saying sorry ObserverIn 30 short sections, Notes on Grief lays a path by which we might mourn our individual traumas among the aggregate suffering of this harrowing time New York TimesFeels raw, even for a book about grief … It is no salve for her own grief, but Adichies brave observance of her own pain, will be a gift to those also suffering their first year of loss in these strange times iNewsWhen you send a great writer into the valley of the dead, the reportage is better quality. In 1961 CS Lewis wrote A Grief Observed of the year after the death of his wife; in 2005 Joan Didion wrote The Year of Magical Thinking about the same time span after the death of her husband. Into this tradition falls Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie … For fans of the famously private Adichie – this is fascinatingly intimate. It is also delivered in the most readable, tender bites for any of the many of us whose attention has been shot by the harrowing of this past year The Times Review Quote Praise for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Take note world ... When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells you to listen, you listen Stylist Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers Chinua Achebe Adiche [has] virtuosity, boundless empathy and searing social acuity Dave Eggers Her writing is clear-eyed and fresh, her characters simply drawn ... Adichie writes with a cool detachment that allows her to plunder grief and stereotype to brilliant effect Times She is a sharp observer, with a gift for capturing those aspects of culture that seem entirely normal to Africans and Americans Sunday Times Feature * Follows on from the phenomenal success of We Should All Be Feminists (150k TCM) and Dear Ijeawele (45k TCM). * Chimamanda is one of the worlds most respected living authors, with a huge social media following, highly influential fans including Beyonce and the Obamas, and a dedicated fan base. * The book will be packaged in the same way as previous Chimamanda non-fiction projects: a beautiful, gifty hardback, perfect for the till point. Competition: Half of a Yellow Sun;Americanah;We Should All Be Feminists;Why Im No Longer Talking to White People About Race;Grief is the Thing with Feathers;The Salt Path;Reasons to Stay Alive;H is for Hawk;Grief Works. Max Porter;Matt Haig;Reni Eddo Lodge;Toni Morrison;Raynor Winn;Helen Macdonald Details ISBN0008470308 Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Format Hardcover Year 2021 ISBN-10 0008470308 ISBN-13 9780008470302 Publication Date 2021-07-28 Pages 96 Language English UK Release Date 2021-07-28 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-07-28 NZ Release Date 2021-07-28 Edited by Takashi Morita Birth 1955 Affiliation West Virginia University Position Associate Director Qualifications Ph.D. Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd Alternative 9780008470319 DEWEY 155.937 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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