The Weaver Reads recenzis One World de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One World, United
4 steloj
This is a good collection, although the stories are of varying quality. It leans especially heavily into contemporary African short stories, which I was pleased to see.
Probably the single-best was the closing story, Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Third and Final Continent," which brough me to tears. I had never read anything by Lahiri before, and this was a great introduction to her work.
Other excellent stories were Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "My Mother, the Crazy African," Martin Ramos's "The Way of the Machete," Dipita Kwa's "Honor of a Woman," and Sequoia Nagamatsu's "Melancholy Nights in a Tokyo Cyber Café." Ravi Mangla's "Air Mail" and Vanessa Gebbie's "The Kettle on the Boat" were also especially touching.
The collection is effective in bringing together that which is universal around the world. Abandonment, generational conflict, loneliness, gender inequality, and discrimination are all really important themes. One theme that unifies a number of stories is …
This is a good collection, although the stories are of varying quality. It leans especially heavily into contemporary African short stories, which I was pleased to see.
Probably the single-best was the closing story, Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Third and Final Continent," which brough me to tears. I had never read anything by Lahiri before, and this was a great introduction to her work.
Other excellent stories were Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "My Mother, the Crazy African," Martin Ramos's "The Way of the Machete," Dipita Kwa's "Honor of a Woman," and Sequoia Nagamatsu's "Melancholy Nights in a Tokyo Cyber Café." Ravi Mangla's "Air Mail" and Vanessa Gebbie's "The Kettle on the Boat" were also especially touching.
The collection is effective in bringing together that which is universal around the world. Abandonment, generational conflict, loneliness, gender inequality, and discrimination are all really important themes. One theme that unifies a number of stories is the sense that characters are required to make really difficult decisions in order to (1) improve their lives, or (2) avoid punishment.
In general, the collection is light-reading, but it's thematically heavy, and that makes it all the more valuable.