Purple Amber

Purple Amber Book Description

“Jaja's challenge now reminded me of the purple ambers that Aunt Ifeoma had planted to try: a rare, fragrant freedom. A freedom different from what the crowds waving green leaves sang about in Government Square after the coup. A freedom to be experienced.”

While Kambili spends her adolescence with her brother Jaja in her rich father's house, where Catholic piety prevails and was shaped by colonialism, she experiences freedom and first love in the poor house of her lecturer aunt, where purple amber blooms in the garden. A childhood spent in Nigeria under military dictatorship means a future that comes at a price. The door of salvation will be opened tragically by the silent and long-suffering mother of the house, and Kambili and Jaja will taste the freedom and rebellion that are as beautiful as purple ambers in the country of the father, God and the dictator.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition