From Punch–Award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, will embark on a national book tour shortly after the Nigerian edition of her latest work, the highly anticipated novel titled Americanah is released on April 21, 2013 in Lagos.
The tour will take Adichie to major cities across Nigeria. The new novel is the fourth published book by the author and her third novel after the Orange Prize winning ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ and ‘Purple Hibiscus’, which also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2003.
Americanah has been described as a fearless and towering novel set in three different countries and continents: Nigeria, England and America. Just like Adichie’s other works, it boldly addresses issues that are serious and mundane, such as love, race, home, hair, Obama, immigration, and self-invention.
Habila’s book on Lagos out soon
Helon Habila’s new book, a memoir of his years in Lagos, will be published in a couple of months from now.
In the book, tentatively titled ‘Goodbye Lagos’, the author narrates his experience in the city. Paying close attention to detail, he recalls his first visit to Lagos as a teenager, his meeting with the very best and worst of literary Lagos, as well as what it felt like living through the Abacha dictatorship, early frustration in becoming an author, assistance from the most unlikely quarters and the timely Caine Prize in 2001.
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