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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY S WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.<\/p>\n
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY S WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.<\/p>\n
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[15],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4208","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-uncategorized","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","add-to-wishlist-after_add_to_cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksaves.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}