Adichie’s follow-up to “Half of a Yellow Sun” is a collection of stories about Nigeria’s professional classes ans their struggle to cope with corruption, which infects every aspect of their lives from school exams to hospital treatment. The luckier ones can escape to a new life in America, but – as the cheated-on wife in “limitation” discovers – separation from their culture and relatives brings problems of its won. Revelatory and perfectly pitched, this is a fascinating meeting of the third and the first.
After that big brute of a book, who wouldn’t look forward to a new one? The book – The Thing Around Your Neck – will be out in April, from Fourth Estate.
oh yay! thanks for the heads up – i can’t wait. she’s an incredibly talented author.