Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 9/4/2007 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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 seminalmoment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independentrepublic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuousdecade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboywho works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna,the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos fora dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuatedwith Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene.
Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendouslyevocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.
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