A powerful novel of love and race, centred around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices in the countries they come to call home, from the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun.



A powerful novel of love and race, centred around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices in the countries they come to call home, from the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun.

'A delicious, important novel' THE TIMES

‘Alert, alive and gripping’ INDEPENDENT

‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both’ GUARDIAN

Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria. In America, Ifemelu suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Meanwhile, Obinze plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, when they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland – they face the hardest decision of their lives.

Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a literary masterpiece, and one of the defining books of the decade.

'A love story for our time' VOGUE

‘A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say’ OBSERVER

'A tour de force. Hugely impressive' MAIL ON SUNDAY