AMERICANAH - Collins Modern Classics

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics | a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times | books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. How easy it was to lie to strangers | to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. Self-assured Ifemelu heads for America. But quiet | thoughtful Obinze finds post-9/11 America closed to him | and plunges into a dangerous undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later | they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria | and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland. Fearless | gripping and spanning three continents and numerous lives | the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation in a globalised world. ‘Some novels tell a great story and other make you chane the way you look at the world. Americanah does both’ Guardian