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The Visit

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The Visit

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Nyambi Nyambi
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As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men - old friends - confront the past and future in a bracing speculative short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah.

One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite. Obinna is a dutiful and unsophisticated stay-at-home husband and father married to a powerful businesswoman. Eze is single, a cautious rebel from his university days whose arrival soon upsets the balance in Obinna’s life. In a world where men are constantly under surveillance and subject to the whims of powerful women, more than Obinna’s ordered and accustomed routine might be on the line.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Visit is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.

©2021 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Dystopian Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Women's Fiction Thought-Provoking Short Stories

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very good light feminist literature. would reccomend but wanted it to be longer. 👍

love chimananda adichie! spoiler warning!!

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...and then again Chimamanda performs her magic. Gender roles and expectations turned on it's head so beautifully.

Wow!

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A sort but compelling story about the power of gender norms on society. I enjoy this a lot and will defentley have to look in to this author further. The narrator was also spot on.

Amazing

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Once again, Chimamanda gets straight to the point! What is supposed to be a story about a friend’s visit actually bring us to the women's reality in men's character.
Brilliant!

Fantastic

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thoughtful, powerful, moving. perfect short read, great performance. . . . . . .

highly recommended

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Chimamanda never misses!! Love this perspective of gender roles reversal. Lots of food for thought throughout.

So powerful!

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overall narration was great but the accent (Nigerian imitation) was terrible. Please use a native next time.

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As women we are raised a certain way and we got used to how things are. This prospective, seeing men being treated the same as women have always been treated sounds so ridiculous, it really makes you open your eyes to how unfair treatment towards women is.

Such a shame it's only a short story

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An interesting audiobook that turns gender roles around and challenges current stereotypes.

This is recommended.

Short but Delightful

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A superb piece of speculative fiction in which the familiar is turned on its head to great effect. Tightly controlled writing, economic yet packed with value, I could have happily listened for hours had it been a longer work. Despite its brevity, the characters are still now alive in my head, so real does Chimamanda forge them. The time has surely come to reward this wonderful writer with the Nobel she so evidently deserves.

The narration was also excellent. A first class job all round.

The full 5 Stars

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