Half of a Yellow Sun
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Edition: Large print edition (1)
Publisher: W.F. Howes Ltd.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 709
ISBN-13: 9781846327162
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Social aspects; Large type books; Fiction; History
Description: Nigeria during the 1960s; a time of vicious civil war in which a million people die and thousands are massacred in cold blood. Three people get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. Another is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. The third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's sister, a remote and enigmatic character. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events...
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