Chosen By Rachel
October 2007 For Discussion November 2007
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wikipedia
Review
Based loosely on political events in nineteen-sixties Nigeria, this novel focusses on two wealthy Igbo sisters, Olanna and Kainene, who drift apart as the newly independent nation struggles to remain unified. Olanna falls for an imperious academic whose political convictions mask his personal weaknesses; meanwhile, Kainene becomes involved with a shy, studious British expat. After a series of massacres targeting the Igbo people, the carefully genteel world of the two couples disintegrates. Adichie indicts the outside world for its indifference and probes the arrogance and ignorance that perpetuated the conflict. Yet this is no polemic. The characters and landscape are vividly painted, and details are often used to heartbreaking effect: soldiers, waiting to be armed, clutch sticks carved into the shape of rifles; an Igbo mother, in flight from a massacre, carries her daughter's severed head, the hair lovingly braided.
Score
Carol: 7.0/10
Eleanor: 5.9/10
Gill: 9.0/10
Jill: 7.8/10
Karen: 6.5/10
Kelly: 8.0/10
Nicole: 6.5/10
Rachel: 8.5/10
Average Score: 7.4/10
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