Half of a Yellow SunNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • 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. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 32 |
Section 3 | 66 |
Section 4 | 127 |
Section 5 | 137 |
Section 6 | 151 |
Section 7 | 162 |
Section 8 | 169 |
Section 20 | 294 |
Section 21 | 298 |
Section 22 | 304 |
Section 23 | 320 |
Section 24 | 327 |
Section 25 | 355 |
Section 26 | 379 |
Section 27 | 403 |
Section 9 | 179 |
Section 10 | 184 |
Section 11 | 189 |
Section 12 | 196 |
Section 13 | 206 |
Section 14 | 217 |
Section 15 | 226 |
Section 16 | 230 |
Section 17 | 243 |
Section 18 | 261 |
Section 19 | 271 |
Section 28 | 439 |
Section 29 | 461 |
Section 30 | 471 |
Section 31 | 492 |
Section 32 | 503 |
Section 33 | 511 |
Section 34 | 522 |
Section 35 | 532 |
Section 36 | 538 |
Section 37 | 542 |
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