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Under the Udala Trees

Yazan: Chinelo Okparanta
Seslendiren: Robin Miles
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Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls. When their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. But there is a cost to living inside a lie.

As Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti's political coming of age, Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees uses one woman's lifetime to examine the ways in which Nigerians continue to struggle toward selfhood. Even as their nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Nigerian lives are wrecked and lost from taboo and prejudice. But this story offers a glimmer of hope - a future where a woman might just be able to shape her life around truth and love.

©2015 Chinelo Okparanta (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Coming of Age Genre Fiction Kadın Kurgu Kurgu Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Savaş Afrika
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St the b honing I was almost put off by the fact that the reader/ narrator was “killing” my precious igbo language but I finally looked pass the linguistic aspect of it rather I focused on the main substance which is one of the issues ravaging our society in a whole .

Very well articulated and presented . Though I do not understand the issue of lesbianism , I kind of felt sorry for Ijeoma because sometimes the first sexual activity experiences by people affects them . However I believer that chikwendu was not well treated here . Ijeoma should not have married a man to break his heart and render him lonely . What if he had exposed Ijeoma to the homophobic world of Nigeria 🇳🇬? She would have been deaf by now

Very didactic but unfair to chikwendu

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Beautifully and poignantly written. The Narrators accent was a bit mixed up at times however

Great read

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Loved it. Brought back memories of my own childhood when talking about the surroundings like udara tree e.t.c.

Childhood memories

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What I love about this book was how the story evolved from generations, the insight into the biafran war, the love story and challenges LGBT community in Nigerian face alongside religion and traditions. A wonderful love story, filled with struggles, and the weighing down of our authenticity by society. Succumbing to the pressure and fear of people
Interesting book!!!

Courage

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This is an important story, a perspective that is usually silenced by fear. It's also beautifully told and narrated - a highly recommended listen.

A brave & beautiful story

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