Off The Bookshelf UK - Books Purple Hibiscus Purple Hibiscus New & Used Purple Hibiscus

Search Books - select a category

Buy Purple Hibiscus online at Discounted New and Used prices. Delivered to your door with Off-The-Bookshelf.

Purple Hibiscus
by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

List Price: £7.99

Off The Bookshelf's Price: £4.99

You Save: £3.00 (38%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £2.75
Third Party New Price: £2.70

Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780007189885
ISBN: 0007189885
Label: HarperPerennial
Manufacturer: HarperPerennial
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: February 07, 2005
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Studio: HarperPerennial
Sales Rank: 627

Related Items:

Things Fall Apart (Penguin Red Classics)

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Fantastic
I couldn't put this book down, it is a truly wonderful read. It is shorter and easier to read than Half of a Yellow Sun I think but it is just as good. The characters are so vividly and clearly portrayed that I really felt I got to know and understand them.
This is a gripping and highly addictive book, I didn't want it to end and I'd absolutely recommend it.

Rating:

- Beautiful, inspiring, heartbreaking
This is just a beautiful read! The writing is as clear as a bell and the characters are heartbreakingly real. Kambili is a 15-year old Nigerian girl who is caught between the old order and the new: as Nigeria is suddenly brutalised by a military dictatorship, she is forced to make her own choices, between previously unquestionned family life with her tyrannical father vs her free-thinking, liberated aunt and cousins. And just to complicate matters further, she falls in love.....
It's an inspiring and wise mix of the political and personal, which manages to make you think and care deeply about the issues and the people. I have read it twice (rare for me) and it only gets better. Highly recommended reading.

Rating:

- Beautiful Story Line Poor Characterisation
My sister recommended Purple Hibiscus to me sometime last year. However, I was reluctant to read the book because I was not sure that it could live up to Half a Yellow Sun, Adichie's other book. In hindsight, I was right.

The novel is narrated by Kambili Achike, the fifteen-year old daughter of a wealthy Nigerian businessman. The book begins with a description of her family life: Her wealthy father, Eugene Achike, whom she called Papa, had made good in life. He had numerous factories and a newspaper, which took an uncompromising stand on the corruption of the ruling elite. To cap it all, he was a philanthropist par excellence, supporting many causes.

Beneath the respectable veneer, however, all is not well. Her father, ... Read More:

Rating:

- Intensely good.
This book is simply written but full of intense feelings. It was difficult in that I could have cried throughout for Kambili, her brother and their mother. It is a story of finding true love in unexpected places and a story of the resilience of children. Highly recommended and it will stay with you for days afterwards.

Rating:

- Tense, absorbing
As the previous reviewers have noted, Purple Hibiscus became completely addictive and I ended up finishing it at 1am. The characters are absorbing, although at first I couldn't really empathise with Kambili, especially during some of the earlier scenes with her cousin Amaka, where she annoyed me with her complacency. However, as the book went on, Kambili changes and her relationship with her cousins improves.It goes without saying how brilliant the character of Eugene is.He is brutal yet still commands the love of his children and his fanatical view of the Catholic faith affects every move Eugene makes.He believes everything, including excluding his father from his life and domestic violence, will eventually lead to salvation. Eugene is very complex,and ... Read More:

Books : Purple Hibiscus