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Title The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Author Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
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Edition 1st ed.
Description 217 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents Cell one -- Imitation -- A private experience -- Ghosts -- On Monday of last week -- Jumping monkey hill -- The thing around your neck -- The American embassy -- The shivering -- The arrangers of marriage -- Tomorrow is too far -- The headstrong historian.
Summary A collection of twelve stories includes the tale of a medical student in hiding with a poor Muslim woman, and a woman who discovers a devastating secret about her brother's death (summary from online).
Local Note LEASE 2009-06
Subject Short stories, Nigerian (English)
Nigeria -- Fiction.
Genre Love stories.
Bildungsromans.
ISBN 9780307271075 : $24.95
0307271072