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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.
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 Half of A Yellow Sun November 17, 2008
Sabine Jell-Bahlsen (New York, NY)
Once you start reading HALF OF A YELLOW SUN, you'll find it hard to put it aside. What starts out like an innocent love story quickly turns into a serious thriller set in the Nigerian civil war over Biafra, Africa's first and major genocide of the 20th century in a country that supplies 15 % of America's oil, a war that cost millions of civilian lives. The author, Chimamanda Adichie seems too young to have lived through this harrowing experience herself, but her powerful novel truly invokes the realities of history and quickly immerses even those who had no clue. A must read for every person interested in the human condition, in genocide, politics and Africa.
Understanding Biafra November 11, 2008
Lorraine A. Burgio (Portland, OR USA)
Nigeria's was created as a country by European powers after World War I, "uniting" three disparate groups of people: the Muslim Hausa in the North; Yoruba in the Southwest; and Igbo (or Ibo) in the Southeast. Nigeria gained its independence from the British Empire in 1960. Author Chimamandra Ngozi Adichie portrays the conflict that led to the Igbo declaring their independence as Biafra in 1967, and the ensuing war with Nigeria, through the stories of two Igbo sisters, Olanna and Kainene Ozobia, and their families and household members. The author provides richly detailed descrptions of the land and lives of numerous strata of Nigerian and Biafran society, and the devastation wreaked by the war that resulted in the starvaion of so many Biafrans. Adichi manages to enlighten the reader on everything from what the people ate to international policies that fed the disaster . . . an excellent work.
I absolutely loved it! October 16, 2008
JustMe (Atlanta, GA)
This book is great. If I wasn't so anti-violence and war I could have easily finished this book in a day. A great read for all Nigerians, especially young Igbos.
The best novel I've ever read! October 8, 2008
N. Mc Collum (Odenton, Md)
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Several times while reading I was brought to the point of tears, clutching the book to my chest and kept looking at the author's picture on the back of the book because I couldn't believe that someone so young could harness such brilliance. A true tour de force! Don't miss this one!
P.S. Anyone who criticizes the author's craftmanship is a nincompoop and deranged lunatic. Totally ignore them.
IMPRESSIVE ACCOUNT October 4, 2008
Ifi Williams (spain)
Fantastic book on RELATIONSHIPS during the Nigerian civil war. When we were kids my (Nigerian) father would tell us stories about the 60's in Nigeria as he was also a professor at Ibaden. However, as kids we were never really intrested in the past. When I read this book I WAS BLOWN AWAY at how a stranger (the author) had put into writing everything I had been told over the course of my childhood by my father. I felt like the author had substituted the names of the characters and had stolen my fathers stories. AMAZING. (I'm now 45) And I feel ashamed that I paid little attention then, because to me they were just storeis but they were not.
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