Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Guardian Review Book Club - 02.06.14

Join Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for a discussion of her novel, Americanah, the story of Ifemula and Obinze, who fall in love as teenagers in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. Self-assured Ifemula travels to the US, where she completes her postgraduate studies and achieves renown as the author of a blog about race and identity. Obinze, meanwhile, embarks on a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Thirteen years later Ifemula returns to a newly democratic Nigeria, where Obinze is now a wealthy man.  Finding their country – and each other – much changed, they must strive to regain their former intimacy. An old-fashioned love story exploring modern attitudes to race, immigration and identity.

Adichie's first novel in seven years was widely praised by critics and won the US National Book Critics Circle Award. It was shortlisted for this year's Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on 4 June.

Hosted by John Mullan, professor of English at University College London, the Guardian's Book Club examines a book a month, via a column in the Guardian Review and a live Q&A session with the author.