Purple Hibiscus takes place in the author's native Nigeria, during the politically unstable years of post-colonialism. The novel is told from the perspective of 15-year-old Kambili, who lives with her overbearing, ultra-religious Catholic father, Eugene, her older brother Jaja, & her mother, Beatrice.
The problem is that it is so reminiscent of the ‘tyrannical father’ novels by Rosa Guy, Joan Riley, Toni Morrison & Alice Walker
Still, I've not yet got to the end and so Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie may well have done something original with this 'genre'.
No comments:
Post a Comment