Half of a Yellow Sun
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$24.99 |
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11/07/2007 |
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B Format Paperback
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This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s‚ at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.
The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer′s house. The other is a young middle−class woman‚ Olanna‚ who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man‚ a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason‚ and who falls in love with Olanna′s sister‚ a remote and enigmatic character.
As these people′s lives intersect‚ they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility‚ about the end of colonialism‚ about ethnic allegiances‚ about class and race; and the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
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