num_pages: 433
description: With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.
title: Half of a Yellow Sun
titlecomplete: Half of a Yellow Sun
characters: Richard, Ugwu, Olanna, Kainene, Odenigbo
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Nigeria, War, Historical, Novels, Africa, African Literature
ratings_count: 152018
places: West Africa, Port Harcourt, Biafra, Abba, Imo, Nigeria, Umuahia, Kano, Lagos, Orlu, Africa, Nsukka
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: PEN Open Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial, London