Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2007Copyright date: ©2006Edition: First Vintage Books editionDescription: 543 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781400095209
- 1400095204
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Fiction | ADICHIE, CHIMAMAN | Available | 33111010843734 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.