Notes on Grief af Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Bog)

From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father. Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father's death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father's death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he'd stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book--a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment--a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.

Titel: Notes on Grief
Forfatter: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Udgave: 1. udgave
Genre: biografi
Forlag: 4th Estate
Udgivelsesår: 2021
Sammendrag: I korte, intense kapitler beskriver Adichie oplevelsen af at miste sin far under COVID-19-pandemien. Hun reflekterer over barndomsminder, familiebånd, nigerianske begravelsestraditioner og den måde, sproget både kan svigte og trøste i mødet med sorg. Bogen er en undersøgelse af kærlighedens styrke og den rå, uforudsigelige karakter af tab.
Type: Hardcover
"Notes on Grief" er et personligt og reflekterende værk af Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, skrevet i kølvandet på hendes fars pludselige død. Bogen udforsker sorgens væsen – dens chok, vrede, kærlighed og sproglige utilstrækkelighed – og skildrer, hvordan tab forandrer ens forhold til familie, minder og identitet. Med sit karakteristiske klare og præcise sprog undersøger Adichie både den private smerte og de kulturelle ritualer omkring død og sorg.