Half of a yellow sun

The Resource Half of a yellow sun
Label
Half of a yellow sun
Statement of responsibility
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Creator
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war
  • With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo§s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents§ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father§s business; and Kainene§s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. -- Publisher description
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Award
  • Booklist Editors' Choice, 2006.
  • Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007.
  • New York Times Notable Book, 2006
Awards note
  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2007.
  • Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007.
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
823/.92
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
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