Half of a Yellow Sun

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Zainab Jah

Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

Winner of the Baileys Prize Best of the Best

Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece.

Ugwu, 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.

©2016 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

"Vividly written, thrumming with life...a remarkable novel. In its compassionate intelligence as in its capacity for intimate portraiture, this novel is a worthy successor to such twentieth-century classics as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River." (Joyce Carol Oates)

"Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers." (Chinua Achebe)

"[Deserves] a place alongside such works as Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy and Helen Dunmore's depiction of the Leningrad blockade, The Siege." ( The Guardian)

"Heartbreaking, funny, exquisitely written and, without doubt, a literary masterpiece and a classic." ( Daily Mail)

"Stunning. This novel is an immense achievement." ( The Observer)

Very well narrated

Good book and very well narrated, I really enjoyed the writing, but these characters were hard to love sometimes

best literary experience of my life.

This book was out of this world amazing. upon finishing I was in disbelief that it ended and I whispered to myself "that was intense." I don't think I'll ever read anything that's better than this.

The world was silent when we died

I’m 35 years old now and reading this book a part of me felt like I’ve died during the Biafran civil war and reincarnated. Tears running down my cheeks, I don’t know, was it the story or was truly reincarnated. If only this war could be a part of literature in the Nigerian schools today. I can’t stop myself from crying

The Failings of a Revolution

Great narrative of the realities of war, and the failings of a revolution. The foul language and explicit sex scenes did make for some awkward moments while listening with the kids.....; nothing that the fast-forward button couldn't take care of.

Zainab Jha ....my hero

I tried to watch the movie but zainab’s voice and role play really suited me better!,, And obviously no one could ever be so successful turning a beautiful book into a movie. For example my imagination of Olanna was so strikingly different than the olana in the movie..

Chimamanda is really one of my favorite authors right now. And I really hope zainab jha reads more books on audible I’m in love with her Nigerian accent. Please oh.

Brilliant! You wont regret to listen to this book.

I absolutely strongly suggest this book for everyone.
This is the second book by Chimamanda I read.
Her ability to tell a story, narrate historic events and undress the human soul all together is profoundly intense.

Narrator did an amazing job!

Exceptional!♥️

The Best book by Chimamanda that I've read.

Surprising insiders view about this important historical event! Making the world hear what it must

One of best five list

Wonderful book. Wonderful narration. Thought provoking and disturbing and awesome. Calling it a must would be an understatement.

Great book, but be prepared to suffer for the characters

The book is incredibly well written, but I honestly bought it because of the author and didn't know it talked about war. Only listen if you can take the pain it describes without affecting your state of mind.

Biafra

Loved it. A beautiful narration of the Biafran war and Igbo life in the sixties