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Half of a yellow sun
- Title
- Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
- Author
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- 435 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war.
- With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigboʹs beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parentsʹ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their fatherʹs business; and Kaineneʹs English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. -- Publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [436]).
- Awards (note)
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2007.
- Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007.
- Call Number
- Sc E 06-1203
- ISBN
- 1400044162
- 9781400044160
- LCCN
- 2005057784
- 9781400044160
- OCLC
- 62878418
- Author
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
- Title
- Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
- Imprint
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
- Edition
- 1st North American ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [436]).
- Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2007.Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- Since 1960
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781400044160
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 06-1203