Name: Half of a Yellow Sun
SKU: 1864939
Price: 276.00 ZAR
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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9781400095209

Type

Physical Book

Author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20x12 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN

1400095204

ISBN13

9781400095209

Synopsis "Half of a Yellow Sun"

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. • Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award.

With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates 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 willful twin sister Kainene.

Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria, 1977) is a Nigerian writer, novelist, playwright. At the age of nineteen, she obtained a scholarship to study communication and political science in Philadelphia. Later, she pursued creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in Portland and earned a master's degree in African studies at Yale University. Her renowned TEDx Talk Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, has become one of the most widely disseminated and read feminist speeches of all time. Currently, she lives between Nigeria and the United States.

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