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‘A delicious, important novel’ The Times‘Alert, alive and gripping’ Independent‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both’ Guardian A delicious, important novel THE TIMES‘Alert, alive and gripping’ INDEPENDENT‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both’ GUARDIANIfemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. In America, Ifemelu suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Meanwhile, Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland – they face the hardest decision of their lives.Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a literary masterpiece, and one of the defining books of the decade. A love story for our time VOGUE‘A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say’OBSERVER A tour de force. Hugely impressive MAIL ON SUNDAY