Americanah

Tapa dura, 605 páginas

Idioma Spanish

Publicado el 2014 por Literatura Random House.

ISBN:
978-607-31-2385-3
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Número OCLC:
950265618

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4 estrellas (2 reseñas)

"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--

48 ediciones

Review of 'Americanah' on 'Storygraph'

4 estrellas

I think this is a necessary book to understand racism in it’s multiple forms, many subtle to those not suffering it. Black hair as an example of my ignorance and as a example pf how deep is the believe system set around race.
I loved the account of migration stories to the States and to Britain. Feeling like an outsider everywhere, struggling with the cultural nuisances. And then, the stories of being pushed to the limits of a person until it breaks.
I could not relate and got a bit bored with some of the parts of the life in Lagos, but that’s just one side of all those that compose the life of Ifemelu.

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Some quotes:

  • “she had not had a bold epiphany […] it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her”.
  • “what she would …

Review of 'Americanah' on 'Goodreads'

3 estrellas

El estilo de la autora me ha llamado la atención, y me ha gustado. La historia, no tanto como esperaba, quizás porque quería más tratamiento de la relación amorosa entre Obinze y Ifemelu, y un poco más del punto de vista de él.
Eso sí, el componente social y el tema de la raza en Estados Unidos se trata de una forma interesante, sobre todo para alguien externo a ello como la protagonista; es notable la influencia autobiográfica de la autora en ese aspecto.

Espero leer en un futuro Medio sol amarillo y La flor púrpura, a ver qué tal están.

Temas

  • Inmigrantes
  • Refugees
  • Immigrants
  • Nigeriano
  • Ficcion
  • Fiction
  • Nigerians
  • Ficción
  • Regugiados

Lugares

  • United States
  • Nigeria
  • Inglaterra
  • England
  • Estados Unidos