The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili′s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanatically religious father. Her life is...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who grew up in Nigeria, was shortlisted for the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and...

. intoxicating story that is at once distinctively feminine, African and universal. - Hepzibah Anderson, Observer

ȴ′s a mature coming-of-age story, and an engrossing portrait of Nigerian society. - The Times

Tais is the best new novel to have come out of Africa in some years. Like its young protagonist, it is a work of undemonstrative but rare feeling and intelligence; and it gives us one of the most fascinating and perturbing patriarchs of recent literature. But its special magic lies in conveying that, however devastated a childhood might be, it still has an unrepeatable, dream-like quality" - Amit Chaudhuri