âA delicious, important novelâ The Times âAlert, alive and grippingâ Independent âA love story for our timeâ Vogue Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. In America, Ifemelu suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Meanwhile, Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion â for each other and for their homeland â they face the hardest decision of their lives. Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a literary masterpiece, and one of the defining books of the decade. âA brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to sayâ Observer âA tour de force ⦠Hugely impressiveâ Mail on Sunday âAn honest novel about race with guts and lustre ⦠Compassionate, visceral and delicately funnyâ The Times
