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Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by 4th Estate in London, the novel tells the story of the Biafran War through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard. It received critical acclaim and won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2007.
Sep 12, 2006 · Half of a Yellow Sun—which takes its name from the emblem of Biafra—reveals a Nigeria that could have been, before it became a nation split by war. Set in the early and late 1960s, the narrative revolves around twin sisters, Olanna and Kainene, members of the Igbo élite.
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Sep 4, 2007 · With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s.
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Half of a Yellow Sun takes place in Nigeria in the 1960s. The book begins when Ugwu , an Igbo boy from a bush village, goes to Nsukka to work as a houseboy for Odenigbo , a professor and radical. Odenigbo is in love with Olanna , the beautiful daughter of a wealthy Nigerian.
Sep 12, 2006 · When the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria seceded in 1967 to form the independent nation of Biafra, a bloody, crippling three-year civil war followed. That period in African history is captured with haunting intimacy in this artful page-turner from Nigerian novelist Adichie (Purple Hibiscus).
Books. Half of a Yellow Sun. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Knopf Canada, Oct 29, 2010 - Fiction - 560 pages. With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was...
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A masterly, haunting novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria and the chilling violence that followed. Published in ...
