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Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hardcover | Pages: 433 pages

Rating: 4.32 | 91195 Users | 7694 Reviews

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Original Title:	Half of a Yellow Sun
ISBN:	1400044162 (ISBN13: 9781400044160)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/879/half-of-a-yellow-sun-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/
Characters:	Ugwu, Olanna, Odenigbo, Kainene
Setting:	Nigeria Biafra Nsukka(Nigeria) …more Lagos(Nigeria) Kano(Nigeria) Port Harcourt(Nigeria) Abba, Imo(Nigeria) Umuahia(Nigeria) Orlu(Nigeria) …less
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize for Fiction (2007), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2006), Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2007), PEN Open Book Award (2007), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2006) Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Fiction (2007)

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A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another. Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love can complicate them all. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had.

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Title	:	Half of a Yellow Sun
Author	:	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 433 pages
Published	:	September 12th 2006 by Knopf
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Western Africa. Nigeria. War

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HALF OF A YELLOW SUN is a very important and very readable postcolonial novel. Centering on the Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-70, it has a lot to teach both about postcolonial Nigeria and about the art and import of storytelling.Language is a central concern in this book, including the occasional tongue-in-cheek play on words, such as Richard being (emotionally) "stirred" by a ropework pot. I got the sense that the author was almost deliberately deceptive in the simplicity of her language, covering

This book came as somewhat of a revelation to me and also a huge relief. This was after having recently read and been disappointed in: The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) a similarly high profile book lauded with both critical and popular acclaim, also set against a (very broadly speaking) similar backdrop of a war torn country albeit Afghanistan rather than Nigeria / Biafra.Half of a Yellow Sun is an extremely well written, very human story and emotionally authentic story told from very

After reading "Americanah" earlier this year, I finally picked up Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Half of a Yellow Sun". I had heard so many great reviews, I was worried it wouldn't live up to my high expectations, but I am very happy to report that it has. "Half a Yellow Sun" tells the stories of a cast of intriguing, flawed and very real characters around the years of the Biafran War. I have to admit, this conflict was, shockingly, not one I knew much about. It was not mentioned in my history

Really loved this book. Some of the characters were a bit bland and boring but it still kept me interested in them. Loved Igwu. Wish there was a book just about him.

Did you see the photos in sixty-eightOf children with their hair becoming rust:Sickly patches nestled on those small heads.Then falling off, like rotten leaves on dust?_____ _____ _____ _____I would have been in grade school, or just entering high school. Adolescent discomfiture was the main thing on my mind. What I knew of the larger world came from photojournalism: Life magazine pictures. Those images, it turns out, were permanent: fire hoses turned on in the South; bombs mushrooming above an



"The world was silent when we died."This casual statement he once heard is used as the title of a book written by one of the characters in this novel, in which Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie chronicles the birth, short and tortured life and death of the State of Biafra: born on the 30th of May, 1967 from Nigeria and forcefully annexed back by the parent state, after a bitter war in which a million died, in January 1970.Most of us, I suspect, do not know about this short-lived country. Even Wikipedia