Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a
heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece 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.
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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