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The settings of the stories are both in nigeria and america. Henry prize stories, the financial times, and zoetrope. Chimamanda ngozi adichie was born in nigeria in 1977. The thing around your neck is a shortstory collection by nigerian author chimamanda ngozi adichie, first published in april 2009 by fourth estate in the uk and by knopf in the us. Chimamanda ngozi adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, purple hibiscus, which critics hailed as one of the best novels to come out of africa in years baltimore sun, with prose as lush as the nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes the boston globe. Her second novel half of a yellow sun won the 2007 orange prize for fiction. Chimamanda is no langston hughes, one of my favourite short story writers see the ways of white folks.
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