Half of a Yellow Sun
Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2007 and Orange Prize 2007.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. • Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award.
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.
| UPC | 2030301001863 |
|---|---|
| Author | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| ISBN | 9781400095209 |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| SKU | 2030301001863 |
'Heartbreaking, funny, exquisitely written and, without doubt, a literary masterpiece and a classic Daily Mail In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwo, a boy from a poor Village. goes to work for Odenigbo, a radical university professor. Soon they are joined by Olanna, a young woman who has abandoned a life of privilege to live with her charismatic lover. Into their world comes Richard, an English writer who has fallen for Olamia's sharp-tongued twin sister Kainene.
But when the shocking horror of civil war engulfs the nation, their loves and loyalties are severely tested, while their lines pull apart and collide once again in ways none of them could have imagined...
