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With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.
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Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Language
- Released
- 2006
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Half of a Yellow Sun
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN10
- 0007225342
- ISBN13
- 9780007225347
- Series
- Tags
- Love, Family, Women, Politics, Military Fiction, Wars, Death, Gifts for women, Africa, Adapted for Film, Mourning, Betrayal, Sisters, Civil War, 1960s, African Literature, Nigeria, 1970s, Nigerian Literature
- First published
- 2006
- Original title
- Half of Yellow Sun
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.