Half of a Yellow Sun tells the story of Biafra’s stunted birth as a breakaway, revolutionary southern province of Nigeria and its elimination at the hands of the western-backed Nigerian government. Adichie may be best known to American students for her 2009 TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” which has been watched nearly 4 million times.Ĭlick above to stream Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story” It was published in 2006, by that country’s most internationally celebrated writer, after Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.Half of a Yellow Sun is an epic historical novel, with a romance novel embedded within it, about the Nigerian Civil War (1967 – 1970). And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna?s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. Olanna is the professor?s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover.
Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal.
With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade.
A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as ?the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,? Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra?s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.
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