The Thing Around Your Neck
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Winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and an Orange Prize for Fiction, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie continues the literary tradition of Chinua Achebe, one of her greatest influences, in thisbrilliant collection of stories. Focusing on life's many clashes—tradition with modernity, African cultures with American—Adichie delivers a series of haunting, character-driven tales."Adichie's graceful and slicing stories ... beautifully capture the immense resonance of small things as the larger world pitches into incoherence."—BooklistThe Barnes & Noble ReviewThe words "Things Fall Apart" are so frequently associated with Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel that it is easy forget they are not original to it but taken from Yeats's 1920 poem "The Second Coming." "The center cannot hold," the Irish poet wrote, contemplating the disintegration of modern life: "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." If Achebe's novel narrated the destruction of traditional Igbo culture by Christian missionaries and British colonialists in the late 19th century, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie writes from a place where only a few can remember what the center was, if such a thing is construed to be an ancestral culture uncorrupted by outside influences. The 32-year-old Nigerian writer acknowledges Achebe as one of her greatest influences -- her debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, opened with the line "Things started to fall apart at home," and this book of short stories is entitled The Thing Around Your Neck. Adichie's characters are, for the most part, irreversibly those of the late 20th century. Many of them are global citizens who make their homes between Africa and America but aren't sure if they truly belong to either.
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