Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie-Half of a Yellow Sun
Channel: Craig Rintoul
Date: 24/01/2007

In 1967 the eastern section of Nigeria, dominated by a minority tribe, attempted to form a separate country: Biafra . The civil war which followed killed tens of thousands of people. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie follows the lives of well-to-do twin sisters and their poor house-boy through the disaster and famine which followed in Half of a Yellow Sun.

Published by Knopf Canada.