Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‎

Half of a Yellow Sun

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WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST
Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece
Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race — and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
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591 printed pages
Original publication
2009
Publication year
2009
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  • b6419484977shared an impression7 years ago
    💀Spooky

    The story of a war that clings to heart and thrightens

  • Marina Zalashared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading

  • Refiloe Masitashared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
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  • Daria & Zviadhas quoted5 years ago
    Here was a superior tongue, a luminous language, the kind of English he heard on Master’s radio, rolling out with clipped precision. It reminded him of slicing a yam with a newly sharpened knife, the easy perfection in every slice.
  • Fede Federicahas quoted2 years ago
    when it got dark, he turned the light on and marvelled at how bright the bulb that dangled from the ceiling was, how it did not cast long shadows on the wall like the palm oil lamps back home.
  • b3443958182has quoted4 years ago
    But I was Igbo before the white man came

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