Purple Hibiscus - the bloom of youth

Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, surprised me as a story and as a piece of writing. A delicate and even poetic, why not, way of recounting the atrocities practiced by a fanatical religious atrocities practiced by a religiously fanatical patriarch and the ills of Nigeria in Africa, which, despite being an oil-rich country, the majority of its population lives in absolute poverty. absolute misery.

The book is told in the first person. The story is told through the eyes of Kalimbi, a teenager and the eldest daughter of the family. The subtlety of the characterization of its characters, showing the damage caused by extremism, allows us to follow the trajectory of this family and hope that one day this situation, which seems to have no end, can definitely be exterminated.

Aunty Ifeoma has a captive place in my heart. A positive influence on Jaja and Kalimbi, the two sons of this patriarch who, in my opinion, was also caught up in this fanatical belief. His wife, a victim of all this, can't bear to see so much violence as punishment, both on her children and on herself. Do you want to know a little more about this story? Watch the review on Bela's Books channel!