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Flowering talent
7/10
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a precocious talent. Purple Hibiscus is a tale of sexual and politcal awakening in contemporary Nigeria. Its narrator, Kambili - like her country itself - is undergoing a huge transformation as she breaks away from her abusive, puritanical father, a wealthy philanthropist in the community but a violent hypocrit [...]

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My name is white
6/10
Orhan Pamuk’s ‘Snow’ is an ambitious (if not over-ambitious) attempt to somehow grasp the complex struggle between fundamentalism and nationalism - and those caught in between - in his native Turkey. The rather unlikely hero Ka, a poet and exile, is drawn unwillingly into this conflict after witnessing a local official [...]

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