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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Beautiful, inspiring, heartbreaking This is just a beautiful read! The writing is as clear as a bell and the characters are heartbreakingly real. Kambili is a 15-year old Nigerian girl who is caught between the old order and the new: as Nigeria is suddenly brutalised by a military dictatorship, she is forced to make her own choices, between previously unquestionned family life with her tyrannical father vs her free-thinking, liberated aunt and cousins. And just to complicate matters further, she falls in love.....
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Beautiful Story Line Poor Characterisation My sister recommended Purple Hibiscus to me sometime last year. However, I was reluctant to read the book because I was not sure that it could live up to Half a Yellow Sun, Adichie's other book. In hindsight, I was right. The novel is narrated by Kambili Achike, the fifteen-year old daughter of a wealthy Nigerian businessman. The book begins with a description of her family life: Her wealthy father, Eugene Achike, whom she called Papa, had made good in life. He had numerous factories and a newspaper,... more info
Intensely good. This book is simply written but full of intense feelings. It was difficult in that I could have cried throughout for Kambili, her brother and their mother. It is a story of finding true love in unexpected places and a story of the resilience of children. Highly recommended and it will stay with you for days afterwards.
Tense, absorbing As the previous reviewers have noted, Purple Hibiscus became completely addictive and I ended up finishing it at 1am. The characters are absorbing, although at first I couldn't really empathise with Kambili, especially during some of the earlier scenes with her cousin Amaka, where she annoyed me with her complacency. However, as the book went on, Kambili changes and her relationship with her cousins improves.It goes without saying how brilliant the character of Eugene is.He is brutal yet still commands the... more info
