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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
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- Released
- 2006
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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
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Women, Classics, Politics, Military Fiction, Wars, Death, Gifts for women, Literary Fiction, Africa, Adapted for Film, Mourning, Betrayal, Sisters, Civil War, African Literature, 1960s, 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.