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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Purple Hibiscus.(Book Review)
World Literature Today, January, 2005 by Dawes, Kwame
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Algonquin. 2003. 307 pages. $23.95. ISBN 1-56512-387-5 CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE's voice in her debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, is a quiet one. She tells her story with something akin to the psychological disinterest of a deeply traumatized person who has cultivated the skill to seem calm as a way of holding back the emotional collapse that appears on the verge of consuming her.
This, of course, is no accident. The narrator, Kambili, is a teenage Nigerian girl whose father, a devout and tyrannical Catholic ...
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