When a person has lived in a place for fifteen years of hardship, everything in life has gone smoothly, and he can live a happy life step by step. However, at this time, she gave up everything before and was ready to return to the hometown where you were born and raised, and to live a life full of uncertainty. There must be a reason behind this, and this mental journey will always be inhumane, so what will be the final result?
Chima Manda· Ngozi · Adichie, Nigeria's talented female writers have won numerous awards. Her novel "United States" is one such story that shows the protagonist going to another country, which lasts 15 years and then chooses to return. The novel won the 2013 National Book Critics Association Novel Award upon its publication.
The novel follows the rich first half of a woman's life named Iphi Mailu. The author begins his novel in a retrospective way, in a way of reflection after reading all the vicissitudes of life. By this time, she had lived in the United States for 15 years and had a popular race-related blog that looked at everything she saw from a unique perspective; He also has a researcher to the position and also has a very good boyfriend. However, she decided to return to Nigeria.
Why? Because her life in the United States is not satisfactory? Because Nigeria is hiding from a man who can't forget him? Or did the racial factor have a powerful impact on her spiritual world? In fact, all of this is one of the reasons.
Adichie takes us first into the growth of Ifimalu and her life in Nigeria. She had an aunt who was the wife of a general, and when the aunt's man died, her aunt's fate took a sharp turn, and the aunt chose to leave the country and chose to go to United States.
And Ifi Malu met and fell in love with another male Obinzi when he was in college. But in the end, they all chose to go out, Ife Malu chose to go to the United States, and Obinzi went to the United Kingdom. Ife Malu paid a terrible price to survive in United States, and the most painful thing for her was that she put herself in a man's bed for only $100. But she got through her toughest moments.
What about Aubinzai? His experience in United Kingdom was a painful lesson. He was deported because of visa issues, which made him hate United Kingdom and did not deal with United Kingdom after his later success.
All of these stories are described in detail in Adichie's novel, and they are based on the fact that when Iphimalu was about to return to China to get her hair done, she came into contact with a group of Africans in reality, and they looked at Iphimalu in a different way, which also made us realize United States attitude towards Africans, and also reflected the reality of Africans' lives in United States.
What about Ifimalu after she returned home? Two people who once loved each other met again, but Obinzi has married and had children, what kind of sparks will there be between them? This is also the biggest suspense that exists in this novel.
As a Nigerian writer, the author is certainly concerned with the issue of African American survival, and with the racial issues faced by blacks. The author sets a lot of the plot in the United States, which makes this relationship even more naked. Because, as a black person, she really came to United States before she realized the racial problem and the difficulty of surviving as a black person in United States. Therefore, in the novel, a lot of "suggestions" are given by the reality of some blogs, but this kind of injustice is seen from the side.
Nigerian novels are rare for us Chinese readers, so let us feel the common emotions between different ethnic groups through the reading of this "United States", and also experience the racial problems that we have to face in reality. #文学##外国文学##小说#