Half of a Yellow Sun
eBook - 2008
NATIONAL 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 h...er 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...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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- English
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File Size | 4 GB |
ISBN | 9780307485779 |
Release Date | 11/12/2008 |
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ASIN | B001L83PLQ |
Release Date | 11/12/2008 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780307485779 |
Release Date | 11/12/2008 |