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The Thing Around Your Neck

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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Summary
 From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.©2009 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2009 WF Howes Ltd Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Short Story Africa
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God Bless Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Great book that appetiser my feeling for more reading. Thanks to all the team of this Book.

Great Book

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Enjoyed this book like other works of Chimamanda , her ability to express real emotion is exceptional. I loved each and every story. Can’t wait for her next book.

Each and every story is a gem

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While the performance was excellent, I think this is the type of book you're better off reading. I think some of the beauty of the language is lost when someone reads it to you. I would have appreciated it more if i had read it myself, especially given they're short stories.
Recommend it, but as a book.

Would be better in text

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