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Permalink. 2/10. A travesty. eliot-miranda 3 December 2018. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun is a great, heart breaking novel; an evocation of four beautifully drawn, vivid characters whose lives are forever changed by the brutalities of the Biafran struggle, the Nigerian civil war.
Jan 14, 2020 · Half of a Yellow Sun is one of those books. On a factual level, this novel has deep roots in the events of 1967 to 1970. Adichie drew on first-hand eyewitness accounts from her parents and close ...
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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 [2] through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard. It received critical acclaim and won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2007.
May 16, 2014 · The film begins on the eve of Nigerian independence in 1960, and follows two young women, Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose), the daughters of a wealthy Lagos businessman, as ...
A sweeping romantic drama, Half of a Yellow Sun takes the sisters and their lovers on a journey through the war which is powerful, intensely emotional and, as the response of readers around the world has shown, is a story which can touch everyone’s heart. Drama 2014 1 hr 53 min. 51%.
