From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists ??a haunting story of love and war ? Recipient of the Women ??s Prize for Fiction ??Winner of Winners ? award
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.
Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.