6/20/2023 0 Comments Adichie half of a yellow sun![]() ![]() As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another. ![]() ![]() Knopf (2006) ISBN 10: 1400044162 ISBN 13: 9781400044160 New Hardcover Quantity: 1 Seller: Butterfly Books (San Clemente, CA, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: new. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna?s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. Half of a Yellow Sun Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Published by Brand: Alfred A. Olanna is the professor?s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. ![]() With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as ?the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,? Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra?s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed. ![]()
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