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Chimamanda ngozi adichie yellow sun7/8/2023 ![]() A streak of mischievous humour runs through everything she says - and when this breaks out into laughter, as it frequently does, she really goes for it, her whole body shaking as she chuckles. She is manifestly serious - about her writing, about the world - but what's most engaging about her is that she doesn't seem to take herself, or anything else, too seriously. Adichie is fun, polite and thoroughly likable. "I had a shower and bits started coming off." Being an internationally acclaimed novelist is clearly a tough business.īut then we sit down, and all traces of fractiousness disappear. ![]() "It is falling apart," she says, her eyes darting up towards the immaculate interior. Nor does her hotel - a five-star place in Mayfair - appear to be to her liking. She has another two weeks of book promotion ahead of her - a prospect she says she finds "exhausting". She has spent the last few days in transit, flying from the country she regards as her home (Nigeria) to the one where these days she spends much of her time (America), and then on to Britain, where she was immediately whisked off to speak at the Oxford Literary Festival. If she is fed up, that's hardly surprising. C himamanda Ngozi Adichie materialises in the hotel lobby, wearing an expression that can only be described as glum. ![]()
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