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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.
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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, Political fiction, Historical fiction, Nigeria, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, politicalTimes
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2019, 4th Estate
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2014, Fourth Estate
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2007, Harper Perennial
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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
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2006, W.F. Howes Ltd.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
2006, Alfred A. Knopf
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