<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the award-winning author of "Purple Hibiscus" comes this masterly, haunting new novel, in which Adichie recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>From the award-winning, bestselling author of <i>Americanah</i> and <i>We Should All Be Feminists</i>--a haunting story of love and war - <b>Recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Winner of Winners" award</b> <p/></b>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. <p/> <i>Half of a Yellow Sun</i> is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal during the Biafran war." --<i>Time</i></p><p>"Instantly enthralling. . . . Vivid. . . . Powerful . . . A story whose characters live in a changing wartime atmosphere, doing their best to keep that atmosphere at bay." --<i>The New York Times</i></p><p>"Ingenious. . . . [With] searching insight, compassion and an unexpected yet utterly appropriate touch of wit, Adichie has created an extraordinary book." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i></p><p>"Brilliant. . . . Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists. . . . That is what great fiction does-it simultaneously devours and ennobles, and in its freely acknowledged invention comes to be truer than the facts upon which it is built." --<i>Elle</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Granta</i>, <i>The O. Henry Prize Stories</i>, <i>Financial Times</i>, and <i>Zoetrope: All-Story</i>. She is the author of the novels <i>Purple Hibiscus</i>, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; <i>Half of a Yellow Sun</i>, which was the recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Winner of Winners" award; <i>Americanah</i>, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection <i>The Thing Around Your Neck</i>; and the essays <i>We Should All Be Feminists</i> and <i>Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions</i>, both national bestsellers. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. <p/></p>
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