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Notes on Grief

by Unknown Author

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88 pages2021HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780008470302
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<p>**DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!**</p> <p>A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.</p> <br> <br> <p>'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'</p> <p>On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.</p> <p>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 Grief is 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.</p> <p>'A work of dignity and of unravelling' GUARDIAN</p> <p>'An exquisite howl of pain' TELEGRAPH</p>

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published
2021
Pages
88
ISBN
9780008470302
Language
en

About Unknown Author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her latest novel Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, and has received numerous accolades, including winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction; and being named one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. --http://chimamanda.com/about-chimamanda/

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