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Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: August. 2005 Pages: 307 Publisher: Harper Perennial of The LIMITS of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the High WALLS of HER family ESTATE and the dictates of HER fanatically RELIGIOUS father. Her life is. REGULATED by schedules: prayer. sleep. study. prayer.When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup. Kambili's father. involved mysteriously in the political crisis. sends her to live with her aunt. In this house. noisy and full of laughter. she discovers life and love - and a terrible. uising secret deep within her family.This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun'. is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new. childhood and adulthood. love and hatred - the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived.