ISBN: 9780007189885 [UK]
Continent: Africa
Country: Nigeria
Title: Purple Hibiscus
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
First published in: 2003
Awards: Commonwealth Writers' Prize—Best First Book 2005
"Nsukka started it all; Aunty Ifeoma's little garden next to the verandah of her flat in Nsukka began to lift the silence. Jaja's defiance seemed to me now like Aunty Ifeoma's experimental purple hibiscus: rare, fragrant with the undertones of freedom..." (Page 16).
