Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Description: Fourth Estate 2006 Paperback, 448pp. In 1960s Nigeria, at the time of the vicious Nigeria-Biafra war, three characters are swept up by the rapidly unfolding political events. One is Ugwa, a young boy from a poor village, who is employed as a house-boy for a university lecturer. Another is a young middle-class woman Olanna, who has come to live the the professor, abandoning her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the idealism and charisma of her new lover. And the third is Richard, a tall, shy Englishman who is in thrall to Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. When Olanna witnesses deeds of unimaginable horror in the outbreak of war, all of these characters are propelled into events that will pull them apart and bring them together in the most unexpected ways. As Nigerian troops advance and they run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another. (ISBN: 0007225342). Fair.

Keywords: Fiction0007225342 0007225342


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