Format:
Book
Author:
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
Title:
Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Edition:
1st North American ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
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.
Subjects:
Historical fiction.
Political fiction.
Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970 -- Fiction.
Nigeria -- History -- 1960- -- Fiction.
Nigeria -- Politics and government -- 1960- -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Notes:
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2007.
Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007.
Web Site:
LCCN:
2005057784
ISBN:
9781400044160
1400044162
9781400095209
1400095204
Other Number:
62878418
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
638487
Call Number:
FICTION Adichie
Course Reserves:
0
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4
# System items in:
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