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THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpieceUgwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race – and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
Product Details
Title: | Half of a Yellow Sun: The Women’s Prize for Fiction’s ‘Winner of Winners’ |
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Author: | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
SKU: | BK0003314 |
EAN: | 9780007200283 |
Number Of Pages: | 448 pages |
Language: | English |
Binding: | Paperback |
Country Of Origin: | United Kingdom |
Release date: | 9 March 2017 |
About Author
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of Purple Hibiscus, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction; and acclaimed story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Americanah, was published around the world in 2013, received numerous awards and was named one of New York Times Ten Books of the Year. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.