The thing around your neck
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Farafina
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9789784801232
Subjects: Short stories, Nigerian (English); Fiction
Description: A collection of twelve stories includes the tale of a medical student in hiding with a poor Muslim woman, and a woman who discovers a devastating secret about her brother's death.
Table of contents: title: Cell one; title: Imitation; title: A private experience; title: Ghosts; title: On Monday of last week; title: Jumping monkey hill; title: The thing around your neck; title: The American embassy; title: The shivering; title: The arrangers of marriage; title: Tomorrow is too far; title: The headstrong historian.