Mehr Feminismus! Der legendare TED-Talk und vier neue Stories von Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Die junge Bestsellerautorin Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie machte mit ihrem TED-Talk ›We Should All Be Feminists‹ (dt.: ›Mehr Feminismus!‹) Furore. Popsangerin Beyonce Knowles sampelte einige Passagen daraus in ihrem Song ›Flawless‹. Mehr als 1,5 Millionen User sahen ihn im Netz, hier liegt er nun zum Nachlesen vor; gemeinsam mit vier neuen Stories, die Adichie einmal mehr als Erzahlerin von Weltrang zeigen. Mit ihren Geschichten gelingt ihr, was nur gro?e Literatur vermag: Minutios legt sie das Innerste ihrer Figuren blo? und enthullt damit Wahrheiten unserer Gesellschaft, die so offenkundig sind, dass wir sie kaum jemals durchschauen. Adichie erzahlt davon, wie man Rollenerwartungen erlernt, und davon, wie man lernt, sie zu brechen. Sie erzahlt von Schuld, Scham und Sexualitat, von Feminismus, Liebe und Heimat. Uber all ihren Geschichten liegt der helle Schimmer einer besseren, einer toleranteren Welt. Adichie ist eine hellwache Beobachterin unserer Zeit und ihre Stories sind eine literarische Offenbarung.

Mutter: Man liebt sie, man braucht sie, man konnte sie auf den Mond schieen. Sie geben ihr Bestes, und es reicht doch nie. Manchmal mochte man ihnen einfach nur danken. Mit einem Blumenstrau? oder mit guten Geschichten uber sie. Von Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Donna Leon, Alice Munro, Ian McEwan, Bernhard Schlink, Doris Dorrie, Leon de Winter, Elke Heidenreich und vielen mehr. Mit einer exklusiven Geschichte von Joey Goebel.

As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. Ifemelu-beautiful, self-assured-departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze-the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor-had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion-for their homeland and for each other-they will face the toughest decisions of their lives. Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today's globalized world.

As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face? Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning `Americanah' is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today's globalized world.

Eine einschneidende Liebesgeschichte zwischen drei Kontinenten – virtuos und gegenwartsnah erzahlt von einer der gro?en jungen Stimmen der Weltliteratur. Chimamanda Adichie erzahlt von der Liebe zwischen Ifemelu und Obinze, die im Nigeria der neunziger Jahre ihren Lauf nimmt. Dann trennen sich ihre Wege: Die selbstbewusste Ifemelu studiert in Princeton, Obinze strandet als illegaler Einwanderer in London. Nach Jahren stehen sie plotzlich vor einer Entscheidung, die ihr Leben auf den Kopf stellt. Adichie gelingt ein eindringlicher, moderner und hochpolitischer Roman uber Identitat und Rassismus in unserer globale Welt.

Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. In America, Ifemelu suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Meanwhile, Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion - for each other and for their homeland - they face the hardest decision of their lives. Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a literary masterpiece, and one of the defining books of the decade.

A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer. When Nigeria begins to fall apart during a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to live with their aunt. In this house, full of energy and laughter, she discovers life and love – and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family. Centring on the promise of freedom and the pain and exhilaration of adolescence, Purple Hibiscus is the extraordinary debut of a remarkable new talent.

A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer. She lives in fear of his violence and the words in her textbooks begin to turn to blood in front of her eyes. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father, involved in mysterious ways with the unfolding political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to their aunt's. The house is noisy and full of laughter. Here she discovers love and a life – dangerous and heathen – beyond the confines of her father's authority. The visit will lift the silence from her world and, in time, reveal a terrible, bruising secret at the heart of her family life. This first novel is about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new; between childhood and adulthood; between love and hatred. An extraordinary debut, ‘Purple Hibiscus’ is a compelling novel which captures both a country and an adolescence at a time of tremendous change.

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 language' On 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 daddy's 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 daughter's fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.

A personal and powerful essay on loss 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 language' On 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 daddy's 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 daughter's fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.

A joyful exploration of family life, written by one of the most outstanding contemporary authors of our generation. This beautiful family story follows a young girl called Chino as she plays with her mama's sleeping scarf through the day. Running with the scarf, Chino weaves together little incidentals of home life into a glorious celebration of the power of a mother-daughter relationship, and the gentle joys that build a perfect day. Exquisitely written with compelling simplicity, this is a heartfelt homage to family love. A compelling debut picture book from one of the most important voices in literature today, brought into glorious technicolour through the vibrant and contemporary illustrations of Joelle Avelino.

Adichies preisgekronter Afrika-Roman - schon jetzt ein Weltklassiker Eine Geschichte uber Liebe und Verrat, Rassismus und Loyalitat und das Leben im zerstorerischen Alltag des Krieges. Im Nigeria der Sechzigerjahre kommt der Dorfjunge Ugwu als Houseboy zu Odenigbo, einem linksintellektuellen Professor, bei dem er lesen und schreiben lernt. Als Odenigbos neue Liebe Olanna ihr privilegiertes Leben in Lagos verlasst, um mit ihm zu leben, wachsen die drei schnell zu einer kleinen Familie zusammen. Richard, ein englischer Journalist, der in Nigeria Inspiration fur sein erstes Buchprojekt sucht, verliebt sich in Olannas ungleiche Schwester Kainene, die die Geschafte der reichen, aber auch korrupten Familie leitet. Sie alle durchleben durch ihre je eigenen Kampfe und Erfolge, doch teilen gemeinsam die gro?e Hoffnung auf ein unabhangiges Biafra, das 1967 im Osten Nigerias, wo die Mehrheit der Igbo-Bevolkerung lebt, ausgerufen wird. Nur drei Jahre spater versinkt das Land in einem blutigen Burgerkrieg, der Olanna, Kainene und ihre Liebsten brutal aus ihren Leben rei?t und alles Dagewesene ausradiert. »Chimamanda Adichie ist eine neue Autorin, die mit der Gabe der alten Geschichtenerzahler gesegnet ist.« Chinua Achebe

From the Orange Prize-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. 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 centre of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their 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 re-examine them. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.

Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

Ein Esel beschlieGt, seinen Besitzer zu verlassen und in die Musikstadt Bremen zu Ziehen. Unterwegs gesellen sich andere Tiere hinzu: ein Hund, eine Katze und ein Hahn. Alle wollen nach Bremen gehen und Musikanten werden. Es ist Nacht, derWeg ist lang und die vier sind hungrig ...

In der Fortsetzung ihres Bestsellers «Und die Welt war jung» lasst Erfolgsautorin Carmen Korn einmal mehr Vergangenheit lebendig werden. Jugendrevolte und Swinging Sixties – eine bewegende Familiengeschichte in bewegten Zeiten. Ein neues Jahrzehnt bricht an fur die Freundesfamilie aus Koln, Hamburg und San Remo. Die 1960er Jahre versprechen Aufbruch, Wohlstand, Lebensfreude. Auch die Kolner Galerie von Gerda und Heinrich floriert. Tochter Ursula in Hamburg erwartet ihr erstes Kind. Sie ist Elisabeth und Kurt, den lebenslangen Freunden ihrer Eltern, dankbar, dass sie ihr und Joachim ein Zuhause geben. Doch das Zusammenleben unter einem Dach ist nicht einfach. Wahrend die nachste Generation nach ihrem Platz sucht im Heute, halt sich Elisabeth lieber am Vergangenen fest, und Kurt nutzt immer ofter die Gelegenheit fur kleine Fluchten. Auch in San Remo bringt das neue Jahrzehnt Veranderungen und Abschiede. Vor allem sorgt sich Gianni um Freund Pips, den fruheren Pianisten seines Jazzklubs, der mit einem dunklen Kapitel seiner Vergangenheit konfrontiert wurde, das sein Leben weit in die Zukunft hinein verandert hat. Carmen Korn erzahlt von den Menschen, von den kleinen Momenten im gro?en Weltgeschehen, von dem, was ein gelebtes Leben ausmacht. Mit ihrer zweibandigen Drei-Stadte-Saga schlie?t sie an den Erfolg ihrer Jahrhundert-Trilogie uber vier Frauen aus Hamburg-Uhlenhorst an und eroberte einmal mehr die Bestsellerlisten.