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Nigeria during the 1960s; a time of vicious civil war in which a million people die and thousands are massacred in cold blood. Three people get 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. Another is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. 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...
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literary fiction, historical fiction, political fiction, war, military fiction, Fiction, History, Modern Literature, Civil War, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner, PEN/Open Book Award winner, Orange Broadband Prize winner, Women’s Prize for Fiction winner, Biafrakonflikt, Civil War (Nigeria : 1967-1970) fast (OCoLC)fst01352311, Social aspects, Nigeria, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, political, Large type books, Fiction, war & military, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Politics and government, 823.92Times
1967-1970, Civil War, 1967-1970Showing 9 featured editions. View all 40 editions?
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2019, 4th Estate
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- 4th Estate Matchbook Classics edition
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2014, Fourth Estate
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2007-09, Anchor Books / Random House
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2007, Harper Perennial
paperback
in English
- reprint (13)
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2007, Harper Perennial
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in English
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2006, W.F. Howes Ltd.
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- Large print edition (1)
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2006, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover
in English
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Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by Fourth Estate, the novel tells the story of the Biafran War through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard.
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