The Thing Around Your Neck. 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).Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. The award-winning and critically acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, in The stories focus on the experiences of Nigerians, the culture-clash problems of Nigerian-Americans, and on the universal human issues of relationships and interaction. Some succeed and find hope, others fail and give up. The last chapter: the thing around your neck is by far my favorite. You can say it’s a companion to Achebe’s “things fall apart”. Above all, this is an easy read and the characters were believable and relatable. How Adichie finds the words and web of narrative imagery is beautiful/5(K).
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The Thing Around Your Neck Summary. The Thing Around Your Neck is arranged as a series of short stories. In the first story, "Cell One," the Cell One narrator tells the story of her brother's time in prison. Nnamabia is a handsome and charming teenager who steals and pawns his mother's jewelry when he's Some succeed and find hope, others fail and give up. The last chapter: the thing around your neck is by far my favorite. You can say it’s a companion to Achebe’s “things fall apart”. Above all, this is an easy read and the characters were believable and relatable. How Adichie finds the words and web of narrative imagery is beautiful. The Thing Around Your Neck is a collection of short stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian author who has won much acclaim for her first two novels, “Purple Hibiscus” and “Half of a Yellow Sun”. These twelve stories have all been published elsewhere at different times, but are linked in that they tell the tale of an individual life, and all feel very anecdotal.
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