Half Of A Yellow Sun

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: Reprint

Description: 433 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel are 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. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And 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. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

ISBN: 9780007200283