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This is a first novel and it is a 5 star book. Adichie has written a memorable story of a Nigerian family.

A father who is a religious fanatic tries to raise his children with an iron fist. He terrorizes them into being

holy. The father is wealthy and generously helps people in the community, therefore he is respected and

revered. HIs children are taken in briefly by an aunt and her children. Jaja and Kambili, then learn about

laughter and love for the first time. Things will get even worse at home as the political situation throughout

the country deteriorates. The father becomes more abusive as he is stressed by business and by

politics. The people in this book are deeply religious. With some family members it is a healthy religion, while

less sophisticated members are still into idol worship. There is an almost love story. Kambili, aged 16 becomes

Infatuated with a young priest. He is responsible for changes in her life. As Kamili learns self respect and self

confidence, Jaja seems to be losing himself. This books well done. It is paced just right, the story moves along

and holds the reader's interest from the first to the last page.


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Purple Hibiscus PS Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 8601300013749 Books Reviews

This is a memorable coming-of-age novel, Adichie's first. It takes place during the military dictatorship of the 1990's, whose oppressive shadow is everywhere. Fifteen-year old Kambili belongs a privileged sector of Nigerian Igbo Catholic society, but is far from privileged. In its focus on suffocating religion and patriarchy Purple Hibiscus reminded me of the novels of Miriam Toews (on growing up as a rebel Mennonite), but Kambili's father is more of a monster than anyone in Toews' books, abusive as he was abused as a boy by colonial priests. Politics and religion dominate the novel. Nearly every character resists the military regime and its violent enforcers in some way, whether by open rebellion or quiet survival. Fuel shortages dominate daily life; grocery shopping trips are planned around the last gallon of gas. The university where her aunt teaches is shut down following student uprisings. I loved the landscapes, the humor, the flowers and foods. I also loved her "traditionalist" grandfather and her marvelous aunt. Her father is interesting and multi-dimensional a tyrant to his family, a hero to the resistance against the military regime. Religion is also many-sided a link to the pre-colonial past, a tool of colonialism and white supremacy, a guide to the "just" life, a prison for women and children...What I didn't love is the sentimentalizing of a (platonic but sexually loaded) relationship between a fifteen-year-old and her charismatic priest. With all we know about pedophile priests this is jarring and inadvertently sinister. The novel has other flaws inherent in choosing a main character with the Stockholm syndrome- Kambili is so passive, so victimized, that it is hard to believe in her if it were not for her admiration of the strong women around her. I want to read all of Abichie's books now. From her TED talk "I am angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change, but in addition to being angry, I’m also hopeful because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to make and remake themselves for the better."
I absolutely loved Purple Hibiscus! This novel honesty wrecked my life because it was so emotional. The story follows the narrator, Kambili, who is a fifteen year old girl. The readers witness her coming of age as she navigates growing up in a very rigid, religious, fairly wealthy family and surviving her father's oppressive and violent nature. As we watch her grow up and begin to understand the ways of her family, we can connect them to the nature of her government being that it is a dictatorship as well. Additionally, the British colonial influence has a severe hold over Kambili's family and her father as it dictates the way in which they live and view their lives. They are restricted from speaking Igbo and they must excel in their missionary education. Kambili's faith or spirituality is a major part of the novel and an aspect of her life that I found extremely intriguing. Reading about her journey of faith and the people she was influenced by really made me think about how faith is interpreted differently by each individual. Her father sees faith as something that is meant to define one's life and be absolute, while her grandfather seeks to bend the faith in a way that constitutes his identity—understanding he is influenced by traditional cultural practices and those that he has come into contract with because of colonialism. Kambili learns about this faith in comparison to her father’s throughout the novel and decides they are not dissimilar and seeks to find her own interpretation of faith as she grapples with hybridity as a result of colonialism.
As for Adichie’s writing in the novel, her style and imagery created a beautiful depiction of Nigeria, often using personification. She showed appreciation for and celebration of Nigeria, resisting the mystification and other descriptions that have been used by colonial writers. She does similar work to Chinua Achebe as she infuses the Igbo language and the English language and writes her own version of the history of colonialism and its effects. Her work also shows similarity with the work of Tsitsi Dangarembga as she using a coming of age story to highlight the acquired hybridity and other elements of postcolonial identity. I would definitely recommend this book!
This is a first novel and it is a 5 star book. Adichie has written a memorable story of a Nigerian family.

A father who is a religious fanatic tries to raise his children with an iron fist. He terrorizes them into being

holy. The father is wealthy and generously helps people in the community, therefore he is respected and

revered. HIs children are taken in briefly by an aunt and her children. Jaja and Kambili, then learn about

laughter and love for the first time. Things will get even worse at home as the political situation throughout

the country deteriorates. The father becomes more abusive as he is stressed by business and by

politics. The people in this book are deeply religious. With some family members it is a healthy religion, while

less sophisticated members are still into idol worship. There is an almost love story. Kambili, aged 16 becomes

Infatuated with a young priest. He is responsible for changes in her life. As Kamili learns self respect and self

confidence, Jaja seems to be losing himself. This books well done. It is paced just right, the story moves along

and holds the reader's interest from the first to the last page.