Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A landmark novel. Adichie brings to history a lucid intelligence and compassion, and a heartfelt plea for memory.

Absolutely awesome. One of the best books I've ever read.

With effortless grace, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates in her second novel a 
seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to 
establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. 
We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: 
Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor 
full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has 
abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm, and Richard, a 
shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s wilful twin sister Kainene. These 
characters are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined 
possible. Half of a Yellow Sun is an electrifying modern masterpiece about the ways in 
which love complicates everything.

Half of a Yellow Sun

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A landmark novel. Adichie brings to history a lucid intelligence and compassion, and a heartfelt plea for memory.

Absolutely awesome. One of the best books I've ever read.

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