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Che bello! Conoscevo Chimamanda per i suoi TED talk prima che per la sua scrittura, e The Thing Around Yor Neck è il primo assaggio di lei che abbia avuto.
Mi è piaciuto tantissimo, mi ha fatta entrare in vite e realtà che non conoscevo, avvolta nella bolla della vita in Europa. È un viaggio letteralmente fuori da sé e da tutto ciò che è familiare.
Tutto meno che idilliaco, crudo nel descrivere realtà che sono e sono state violente e disumane, onesto e veritiero nel dipingere il sentimento dei personaggi, con parole semplici e dirette che non lasciano spazio alle incertezze: si sa sempre con precisione cosa sta succedendo o è successo.
Bellissima lettura, e importante per recuperare una prospettiva di umanità globale.
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Marina

Wonderful Chimamanda

Recensito in Italia il 13 ottobre 2017

The usual, wonderful and unpredictable Chimamanda. A window on Nigeria contradictions, on true women's behavior. Somerhing different from the mainstream African novels written by Europeans.

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adamag

particolare

Recensito in Italia il 30 luglio 2013

L'autrice ha un ottimo stile oltre ad una particolare capacità di descrivere una realtà composita e sfaccettata.
Mi ha affascinato l'amore per il suo paese la Nigeria.

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Arianna

Stupendo

Recensito in Italia il 22 maggio 2016

La Adichie è una scrittrice fantastica, questi racconti di vita quotidiana sono resi in maniera sublime catapultando il lettore nelle realtà descritte, malgrado queste siano situate in luoghi distanti (geograficamente e culturalmente).

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Gabrielle Lessard

don’t miss this

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 6 marzo 2024

Sometimes you read a short story and appreciate it as a bite-sized nugget. The stories in this book were so rich, and the characters so interesting, I was disappointed when the stories ended. This is another excellent work by this outstanding author

Laura

Muy bueno

Recensito in Spagna il 4 maggio 2023

Me ha gustado mucho

Maria

Chimamanda never fails

Recensito in Messico il 27 aprile 2020

Through Chimamanda’s stories I’ve learnt so much about Nigeria and about how it is being a black woman in this world and this is one is no exception. It’s a beautiful collection of stories and each one has something gasping and mesmerising. I was obviously highly satisfied with this books as well as I’ve been with her other books.

Thais Resende

Atendimento de excelência.

Recensito in Brasile il 23 agosto 2019

Comprei e-book, disponibilidade imediata. Arquivo sem problemas, leitura de qualidade.

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Monika

A Must Read

Recensito in India il 24 ottobre 2020

CHIMAMANDA. A name that I heard three years ago. A name that I was trying so desperately to get familiar with. A name, to be honest, I fell in love with instantly. It is also a name that I found on Facebook during a time when she had written what I consider to be her masterpiece. Along with all that, it is also a name that I am glad I didn't try to read three years earlier because had I read her then, I know I would have pretended to like her words because I knew she was 'cool'.

I received The Thing Around Your Neck as a birthday present from a 'friend' whose friendship, unfortunately, didn't last long. Chimamanda did, though. I don't remember ever thinking about why I wasn't picking her up even though her book was waiting to be read. Her art of simplified truances were not for me. Now, the story is different. Books have taught me a lot and I have matured enough to bask in the sinful glory of a dreamless haze; sinful because how can someone, in a language that is being used everyday, create something as mesmerizing and as private as this?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's collection of short stories, The Thing Around Your Neck, is, for me, like a fabled dream. African cultures have always drawn me towards themselves. The sheer monopoly with which writers from Africa or those of African origin carve their stories and tales in words is something with which I will be always biased. It is the history of slavery that had first drawn me to African writings and it is the same history of slavery, of oppression, of British colonialism and of the neo-colonialism that constantly perpetuates strength in me. African history is a history that taught me there is more to 'national' and 'cultural' history than what we generally see.

This book of short stories contain twelve short stories by Adichie. There is something about short stories that I both like and dislike - like the gorgeousness of pain, it stays and tingles long after the effect becomes invisible to the peering eyes. Be it the growing up of a boy in Cell One or the opaqueness of future of The American Embassy, the ghosts of Ghost or the contracts of The Arrangers of Marriage, the freedom of The Jumping Hill or the hate of Tomorrow Is Too Far - I want to carry it all. I want to carry Nkem's hopefulness, Chika's searchful eyes, 'you''s nothingness, Udenna's memories, Kamara's cage and Afamefuna's courage. I wish I had it in me to carry all of it but I know that I am too weak to bear all the weight.

This short story collection needs to be read by all of us. If it is possible, I'd even say that it needs to be re-read if you could spare a few moments to it. It is devastating, chilling, nauseating and yet it is so beautiful and glorious that it wouldn't part away with your skin. Read it. You must.

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