Around your neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Winner of the visa lottery, Akunna leaves Nigeria for the United States, where she discovers a country that has little in common with the one she had expected. In Kano, in northern Nigeria, a violent intercommunal riot brings together two women who are completely different: a Muslim onion seller and a student from the Christian bourgeoisie of Lagos. In Nsukka, whitened by the harmattan, James Nwoye, a former university student in the twilight of his life, thinks back to the Biafran dream and waits, at night, for the visits of his deceased wife, who comes to caress his tired legs... Here are some of the characters in Adichie's short stories; they compose a complex and rich image of the Nigerian reality today, which has its roots in the past and continues in the experience of emigration, a moving, often poignant, alternately terrible and funny, always vibrant with humanity.
 320 pages
 Editions: Editions Gallimard