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Half of a yellow sun

Title
  1. Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Published by
  1. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Supplementary content
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description
  3. Author's website
Author
  1. Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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Description
  1. 435 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  1. Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war.
  2. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigboʹs beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parentsʹ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their fatherʹs business; and Kaineneʹs English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. -- Publisher description.
Subject
  1. Nigeria
  2. History
  3. Political fiction
  4. Historical fiction
  5. Nigeria > History > Civil War, 1967-1970 > Fiction
  6. Since 1960
  7. Nigeria > History > 1960- > Fiction
  8. Fiction
  9. Politics and government
  10. Nigeria > Politics and government > 1960- > Fiction
  11. Civil War (Nigeria : 1967-1970)
Genre/Form
  1. Historical fiction.
  2. Political fiction.
  3. Fiction.
  4. History.
Call number
  1. Sc E 06-1203
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [436]).
Awards (note)
  1. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2007.
  2. Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007.
Author
  1. Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
Title
  1. Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Imprint
  1. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Edition
  1. 1st North American ed.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [436]).
Awards
  1. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2007.
  2. Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007.
Connect to:
  1. Sample text
  2. Contributor biographical information
  3. Publisher description
  4. Author's website
Chronological term
  1. Since 1960
LCCN
  1. 2005057784
Other standard identifier
  1. 9781400044160
ISBN
  1. 1400044162
  2. 9781400044160
Research call number
  1. Sc E 06-1203
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