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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  The Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

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  This is the story of Kambili, a young Nigerian girl who lives in fear of her strict, fanatically religious father. Following a military coup, Kambili and her brother are sent to live with their aunt. In this happy, relaxed household a dark family secret begins to emerge. A beautifully written, gripping story of tender adolescence and the dangers of religious intolerance, at once instantly recognisable as well as feeling distinctly Nigerian.

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  Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

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  Orange prize-winner in 2007, Adiche's novel tells the story of three characters in the 1960s during the build up and eventual outbreak of the Nigerian War. Bursting with energy, it weaves these occasionally harrowing human stories in with issues of child soldiers, the ineptitude of foreign aid, tribal loyalties and the legacy of colonialism. Gripping, literary fiction that is as informative as it is enjoyable.