Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was dubbed the "21st century daughter" of Chinua Achebe by the Washington Post Book World for her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus. In her masterful, haunting new novel, she recreates a pivotal moment in modern African history: Biafra's fervent struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s.
Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade with the effortless grace of a natural storyteller. Ugwu, a fifteen-year-old houseboy, works for Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school and whose living room he hears voices filled with revolutionary zeal. Olanna, Odenigbo's beautiful mistress and a sociology teacher, is fleeing her parents' world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father's business; and Kainene's English lover, Richard, bridges their two worlds. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments, that marked this time and place as we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, Biafran secession, and the subsequent war as we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, Biafran secession, and the
Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we've seen before. It's epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized.
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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