Half of a Yellow Sun Book

In 1960s Nigeria a country blighted by civil war three lives intersect. Ugwu a boy from a poor village works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna a young woman has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover the professor. And Richard a shy English writer is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism ethnic allegiances class and race - and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

The second novel from talented Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun is a moving tale of war and peace in the author?s homeland. Powerful and moving, this novel saw Adichie win the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction, and is loaded with fascinating references to the history of Nigeria and the vicious civil war of the 1960s. Three superbly drawn characters find themselves swept up in the violence during these turbulent years, and learn they must question their responses to this chilling political upheaval as their lives intersect.

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange...

In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect.