Half of a Yellow Sun (Abridged Edition)

De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrado por: Adjoa Adoh

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

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This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.

The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character.

As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

©2006 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK

Spell binding

This book left me with so much to think about. The characters where so real and the narration absolutely captivating. Highly recommended!

A missed opportunity of a war story

This is firstly a war story. The story of a national identity Adichie has set out writing about is somewhat lost in the ridicule she worked into the desperate strife for respect & recognition of the Biafran characters. The choice of a Ghanaian narrator made the many dominant Igbo characters sound like Ghanaians, which sadly added to the overall indefinite message of what would have been a well written work.

Great story

Great story. I didn't even know anything about Biafra ever existing. I love all of chimamanda ngozis Adichies books and the narrator was good too. Definitely recommend