Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Description: Harper Perennial 2007 Paperback, 433pp. In 1960's Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university lecturer. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. The third is Richard, a shy Englishman in thrall of Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. When the shocking horror of the war engulfs them, their loyalties are severely tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways that none of them imagined. (ISBN: 9780007200283). Very good.

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