Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 19/01/2009

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THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’


‘A literary masterpiece’ DAILY MAIL


‘An immense achievement’ OBSERVER


‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME


In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer. And Richard, a shy Englishman, is in thrall to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister. Amongst the horror of Nigeria’s civil war, loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined.


Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece is a novel about race, class and the end of colonialism – and the ways in which love can complicate everything.


‘Vividly written, thrumming with life … a remarkable novel’ Joyce Carol Oates


‘Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists’ Elle


‘Absolutely awesome. One of the best books I’ve ever read’ Judy Finnigan

ISBN:
9780007279289
9780007279289
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
19-01-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker and Granta.

She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize; Americanah, which won the NBCC Award and was a New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; and the essay We Should All Be Feminists.

A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

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