Notes on Grief

A devastating essay on loss from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!

A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

Informationen zum Autor CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than 55 languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Financial Times . She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus , which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun , which was the recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction Winner of Winners award; Americanah , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; the essays We Should All Be Feminists , Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions , and Notes on Grief ; and Mama's Sleeping Scarf , a book for children. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. Klappentext DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now! A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. Zusammenfassung DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now! A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

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CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than 55 languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Financial Times. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction Winner of Winners award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; the essays We Should All Be Feminists, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, and Notes on Grief; and Mama's Sleeping Scarf, a book for children. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

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DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!

A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language'

On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.

In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Griefis at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter's fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.

'A work of dignity and of unravelling'*GUARDIAN*

'An exquisite howl of pain' TELEGRAPH