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Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- (Author).

Summary:

Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war.
With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigboʹs beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parentsʹ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their fatherʹs business; and Kaineneʹs English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. -- Publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0676978126
  • ISBN: 1400044162
  • ISBN: 1400095204
  • ISBN: 9780676978124
  • ISBN: 9781400044160
  • ISBN: 9781400095209
  • Physical Description: 435 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st North American edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 436).
Awards Note:
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2007.
Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007.

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Subject:
Nigeria > History > 1960- > Fiction.
Nigeria > History > Civil War, 1967-1970 > Fiction.
Nigeria > Politics and government > 1960- > Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Political fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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