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Article: WHEN MY FATHER READ MY NOVEL, HE WAS ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIED!
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 30, 2004
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Byline: ALISON ROBERTS
CHIMAMANDA Ngozi Adichie started writing her novel Purple Hibiscus because she was deeply homesick for her native Nigeria. Living and studying in Baltimore, America, she yearned for the smells of her garden at home, for the fragrance of frangipani and fruit trees, African lilies and curry spice.
"I was extremely homesick," laughs the 26-year-old. "I just wanted to go home. Writing it all down was a way of being back there."
She did not imagine, of course, that her therapeutic sessions at the laptop after class would result in the kind of international literary acclaim she is now beginning to enjoy.
Purple ...