Half of a Yellow Sun

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780007200283
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (United Kingdom) 2007

This novel is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

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