Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, was published in March 2017.Ī recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Ms. Her 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminists has a started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014. Her 2009 TED Talk, The Danger of A Single Story, is now one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time. Adichie has been invited to speak around the world. Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. As Nigerian troops advance and they must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.Įpic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race-and about the ways in which love can complicate them all.Ĭhimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone.

Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Published in 2006, Half of A Yellow Sun garnered numerous accolades and was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007. A masterly, haunting novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, and the chilling violence that followed.

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