Half of a Yellow Sun

Name: Half of a Yellow Sun
Rating: 4.3 (33 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780007200276

by Unknown Author

4.3

(33 ratings)

448 pages2006Fourth Estate LtdISBN 9780007200276

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About this book

Set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died. This novel contains the three main characters who get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. It is about Africa, about the end of colonialism, about class and race; and the ways in which love can complicate these things.

Publication Details

Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Published: 2006
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780007200276
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her latest novel Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, and has received numerous accolades, including winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction; and being named one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. --http://chimamanda.com/about-chimamanda/