Cover of Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Unknown Author

4.3
(33 ratings)
433 pages2016HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780008205249

About this book

<p>**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!**</p> <p>THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'WINNER OF WINNERS'</p> <p>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'</p> <br> <br> <p>'A literary masterpiece' DAILY MAIL</p> <p>'An immense achievement' OBSERVER</p> <p>In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer. And Richard, a shy Englishman, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. Amongst the horror of Nigeria's civil war, loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined.</p> <p>Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece is a novel about race, class and the end of colonialism - and the ways in which love can complicate everything.</p> <p>'A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal' TIME</p> <p>'Vividly written, thrumming with life ... a remarkable novel' JOYCE CAROL OATES</p> <p>'Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists' ELLE</p>

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published
2016
Pages
433
ISBN
9780008205249
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/

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