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Half of a Yellow Sun

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Women’s Prize for fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ and a SERVICE 95 Book Club pick.

‘A literary masterpiece’DAILY MAIL

‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME

In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer. And Richard, a shy Englishman, is in thrall to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister. Amongst the horror of Nigeria’s civil war, loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined.

Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece is a novel about race, class and the end of colonialism – and the ways in which love can complicate everything.

‘An immense achievement’OBSERVER

‘Vividly written, thrumming with life … a remarkable novel’ JOYCE CAROL OATES

‘Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists’ELLE

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 09 Mar 2017
Pages: 448
ISBN: 978-0-00-720028-3
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

”'Heartbreaking, funny, exquisitely written and, without doubt, a literary masterpiece and a classic” - Daily Mail

”'Stunning. This novel is an immense achievement” - Observer

”'A landmark novel. Adichie brings to history a lucid intelligence and compassion, and a heartfelt plea for memory” - Guardian

'Vividly written, thrumming with life … a remarkable novel. In its compassionate intelligence as in its capacity for intimate portraiture, this novel is a worthy successor to such twentieth-century classics as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River' Joyce Carol Oates -

”'Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers” - Chinua Achebe

”'The character burrow into your marrow and mind, and you come to care for them deeply - something that is all too rare” - Daily Telegraph

‘A sane and compassionate new voice in an often strident world’Financial Times -

”'Adichie uses language with relish. She infuses her English with a robust poetry” - Helen Dunmore, The Times

”'A powerful account of the Biafran War, horrific and tender in equal measure” - Sunday Telegraph

'Absolutely awesome. One of the best books I've ever read' Judy Finnigan -

”'I wasted the last fifty pages, reading them far too greedily and fast, because I couldn’t bear to let go … magnificent” - Margaret Forster