Half of a Yellow Sun

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The Women's Prize for fiction 'Winner of Winners' and a SERVICE 95 Book Club pick.
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 twin 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 about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780007200283
Published: January 2007

Number of pages: 448
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 28 mm

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers