Chigozie Obioma

2 days ago | lesen.de | Kristin Hannah |James Baldwin |Chigozie Obioma |Margaret Atwood

An instant Sunday Times bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture!'Astonishing. Compelling. Powerful' - Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' - Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry?Powerful' - Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight LibraryThe Number One bestselling novel which has captured the hearts of readers across the world. The Women is a novel of epic love and devastating loss.

1 week ago | lesen.de | Claire Lombardo |Chigozie Obioma |Margaret Atwood |Sally Rooney

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK BY PEOPLE AND PARADE • The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had returns with brilliantly observed novel of a woman in midlife on the verge of upending everything when sudden family events threaten to unearth her painful past..

Nov 9, 2024 | esquiresg.com | Chigozie Obioma

My process of composition is a long and sinuous one: first an idea comes to me, usually by serendipity. I can now allow the idea to incubate and grow into a fully formed piece—a novel or a short story. That period of incubation is often long, but when the story spills onto the page I am often satisfied because it has been a long time forming. But in 2011 when I completed the novel I had been writing since 2009, I felt that the narrative perspective was not right.

Sep 13, 2024 | modernagejournal.com | Chigozie Obioma

One modern view of war teaches that all of it is senseless; in the face of violence and suffering, the only thing one can do is echo the absurdist “Poo-tee-weet” of the birds overlooking fire-bombed Dresden in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Yet war has also been hero-making and culture-defining for the individual and society.

Sep 3, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Chigozie Obioma

Junior Nyong'o's low-key narration is exactly what this mystical story demands. In the 1960s, during the brutal Biafran-Nigerian civil war, Kunle, tormented by guilt over an accident that nearly killed his brother years ago, learns that his brother is now in Biafra. Kunle volunteers with the Red Cross since only they can cross the Nigerian blockade into Biafra. There he is captured by the Biafran army and forced to fight.