num_pages: 1484
description: A collection of three extraordinary and exquisitely written novels from one of the most important and exciting young writers in the world.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has firmly established herself as one of the worlds most exciting and important young writers  a regular award-winner endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers (Chinua Achebe).A gripping vividly written masterpiece Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize for Fiction. The lives of Ugwu a young boy from a poor village Olanna a middle class woman and Richard a white man and a writer intersect in intimate and unexpected ways during the vicious Nigerian civil war. This is a story about Africa about moral responsibility the end of colonialism ethnic allegiances class and race  and about how love can move in to complicate all these things.Fearless gripping spanning three continents and numerous lives Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in todays globalized world. Ifemelu and Obinze fell in love as teenagers in Lagos. Thriteen years later Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria; Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer in America. When Ifemelu returns to Nigeria and the pair reignite their shared passions  for their homeland and for each other  they face the toughest decisions of their lives.Purple Hibiscus is a compelling tale of adolescence set against the backdrop of Nigerias military coup. Fifteen-year-old Kambilis life is regulated by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive father. However when Nigeria begins to fall apart Kambili and her brother are sent to live in their aunts laughter-filled house where they discover life love and a terrible bruising secret deep within her family.
language: English
title: Half of a Yellow Sun / Americanah / Purple Hibiscus
publisher: Fourth Estate