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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
4.5/5
"Cell One" - 3/5
Imitation - 3.5/5
A Private Experience - 4.5/5
Ghosts - 4/5
"On Monday of Last Week" - 4/5
"Jumping Monkey Hill" - 4.5/5
"The Thing Around Your Neck" - 4/5
"The American Embassy" - 4.5/5
The Shivering - 3.5/5
The Arrangers of Marriage - 4/5
Tomorrow is Too Far - 4.5/5
"The Headstrong Historian" - 5/5
My average of the class assigned is a smidge higher than the ones I read on my own, but the class also has the greatest range of scores and has both the best and the worst according to my personal feeling. Anyway, "The Headstrong Historian" is phenomenal, so I will look more kindly on the good intentions of the academic slicing and dicing this one time. For those new to Adichie, if you liked her Nigerian stories, pick up [b:Half of a Yellow Sun|18749|Half of a Yellow Sun|Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327934717s/18749.jpg|1651408], especially if "A Private Experience" resonated. If you liked the America, go the somewhat obvious but still great [b:Americanah|15796700|Americanah|Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356654499s/15796700.jpg|21519538] way. If you want me to butt out, tackle [b:Purple Hibiscus|126381|Purple Hibiscus|Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1329431038s/126381.jpg|1057017], which I haven't read and as a result you must get back to me about.
The first thing that came to Ujunwa's mind was to ask if Isabel ever needed royal blood to explain the good looks of friends back in London.Look, I'm fully committed to rooting for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie until the Nobel Prize for Lit committee gets their collective head out of their collective ass and gives it to her (spare me the political yibble yabble. My knowing what's up hasn't killed my excitement yet, so leave me this and go ruin Santa Clause or US democracy or something of that level of fantasy for someone else), so if you're looking for an introduction to an introduction to this writer, look elsewhere. The half star up there is in context with Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, not the entirety of what I've read thus far, simply because the latter would be extremely unfair to the rest of said works. Only my absolute faves and a few superb fives à la [b:Almanac of the Dead|52385|Almanac of the Dead|Leslie Marmon Silko|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386924233s/52385.jpg|316915] and [b:The Guest|1447640|The Guest|Hwang Sok-yong|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320517182s/1447640.jpg|1438348] would survive. Maybe.
We are the educated ones, taught to keep tightly rigid our boundaries of what is considered real.This is the work whose inclusion in the reading itinerary of a particular Postcolonial Short Story class convinced me to take said class. Was it worth it? Looking back, I'd say it did a good job of kicking my ass into high gear in both the Postcolonial, a previously dabbling breed of lack of commitment, and the short story, whose unnerving brevity now has a counterbalancing of a multifarious and sometimes delightful history. In terms of the by rote stuff, I learned the PoCo is more often than not PoMo, the PoMo in a short story cycle SSC is a marvel to behold, and genre stories written in unfamiliar environments are actually quite nice when the author isn't a fetishist with a dictionary looking for that next cash cow. Sure, the nonfetishist author may also be looking for that next cash cow, but the thing about capitalism is you can't expect a cookie everytime you mock the aspects that you personally don't adhere to body and soul. Postcolonial works written by those equipped with an inheritance of the economic type seems a bit of an oxymoron, yes? Bit self-defeating? I work only with the margin that's centered enough to reach my gaze, but if every transitory beckoning every so often reaches the quality of Adichie, I can work with that.
Grace would ponder this story for a long time, with great sadness, and it would cause her to make a clear link between education and dignity, between the hard, obvious things that are printed in books and the soft, subtle things that lodge themselves into the soul.I feel the need to include the standard short story run down for the first time for whatever reason, so here goes, complete with quotes around the ones the class chose to peruse:
"Cell One" - 3/5
Imitation - 3.5/5
A Private Experience - 4.5/5
Ghosts - 4/5
"On Monday of Last Week" - 4/5
"Jumping Monkey Hill" - 4.5/5
"The Thing Around Your Neck" - 4/5
"The American Embassy" - 4.5/5
The Shivering - 3.5/5
The Arrangers of Marriage - 4/5
Tomorrow is Too Far - 4.5/5
"The Headstrong Historian" - 5/5
My average of the class assigned is a smidge higher than the ones I read on my own, but the class also has the greatest range of scores and has both the best and the worst according to my personal feeling. Anyway, "The Headstrong Historian" is phenomenal, so I will look more kindly on the good intentions of the academic slicing and dicing this one time. For those new to Adichie, if you liked her Nigerian stories, pick up [b:Half of a Yellow Sun|18749|Half of a Yellow Sun|Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327934717s/18749.jpg|1651408], especially if "A Private Experience" resonated. If you liked the America, go the somewhat obvious but still great [b:Americanah|15796700|Americanah|Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356654499s/15796700.jpg|21519538] way. If you want me to butt out, tackle [b:Purple Hibiscus|126381|Purple Hibiscus|Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1329431038s/126381.jpg|1057017], which I haven't read and as a result you must get back to me about.
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Mehr oder weniger zufällig bin ich über diese großartigen Erzählungen gestolpert und habe sie verschlungen.
Adichie schreibt über das Leben afrikanischer Frauen zwischen den Kulturen und Zeiten. Über ihre Schwierigkeiten und Fähigkeiten, über Hindernisse, über Probleme, Wünsche, Ängste und Hoffnungen.
Die Erzählungen spielen in unterschiedlichen Teilen Afrikas und den USA, unterschiedlichen Zeiten und handen von unterschiedlichen Frauen, deren autobiografischer Anteil aber immer präsent scheint.
Ihr Stil is fesselnd, schonungslos und sehr genau. Sehr bewegend ohne fatalistisch zu sein. Gleichzeitig hoffnungsvoll und hoffnungslos.
Adichie schreibt über das Leben afrikanischer Frauen zwischen den Kulturen und Zeiten. Über ihre Schwierigkeiten und Fähigkeiten, über Hindernisse, über Probleme, Wünsche, Ängste und Hoffnungen.
Die Erzählungen spielen in unterschiedlichen Teilen Afrikas und den USA, unterschiedlichen Zeiten und handen von unterschiedlichen Frauen, deren autobiografischer Anteil aber immer präsent scheint.
Ihr Stil is fesselnd, schonungslos und sehr genau. Sehr bewegend ohne fatalistisch zu sein. Gleichzeitig hoffnungsvoll und hoffnungslos.
Did I finish it? Yes
Did I think it was good? Yes
Did I like it? Yes
Would I recommend it? Yes
Would I re-read it? Maybe
Did I think it was good? Yes
Did I like it? Yes
Would I recommend it? Yes
Would I re-read it? Maybe
Wow. Hot topics, American prejudice, immigration, traditional Igbo culture. This book has heartbreak and love, brokenness and resilience. Adichie shows us the Igbo tribe, Nigeria, and Nigerians living in the USA. I love her writing. I enjoy short stories. Great book.
Exquisite stories. CNA is firmly one of my favourite authors and, with this collection, I've read every book she's published till now.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie does more for character development in each short story than most authors do in an entire book. All of her short stories use such vivid detail to truly immerse the reader into the experiences of each narrator. I truly loved this book, and I cannot wait to read more by this author!
Beautiful short stories masterfully narrated on Audible. Loved it.
'Algo alrededor de tu cuello' es una colección de historias cortas sobre mujeres nigerianas (salvo una, que tiene protagonista masculino). Mujeres diversas que se enfrentan a situaciones y problemas: emigración, abuso, muertes de familiares, conflictos políticos y civiles...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie nos acerca a otras vidas, a otros problemas y a otras formas de salir adelante. Nos enriquece, nos hace empatizar, nos tira verdades incómodas a la cara, nos saca de nuestro entorno y nuestra área de confort: nos convierte en mejores personas.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie nos acerca a otras vidas, a otros problemas y a otras formas de salir adelante. Nos enriquece, nos hace empatizar, nos tira verdades incómodas a la cara, nos saca de nuestro entorno y nuestra área de confort: nos convierte en mejores personas.