Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Book
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Post Comment - Let others know what you think about this book
Storyline
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BESTWinner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpieceUgwu, 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.
Details
- Number of Pages: 448 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: Apr 30, 2007
- Price: $17.75
- ASIN: 0007200285
- ISBN: 0007200285
Buy on Amazon »
Books on the site are added by members. You can add a book too.
Click here to add one.