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HALF OF A YELLOW SUN

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
SKU: 9780007200283

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WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece Ugwu, 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.
 

  • Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 448 pages

ISBN : 9780007200283

Published : 15 Jan 2007

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Language : English

Main Material : Paperback

Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers

Size : 197 x 129 x 29 (mm)

Weight : 316g

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