$19.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate / ISBN:9780007200283
Half Of A Yellow Sun
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.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Thing Around Your Neck
$24.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
The first work from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie since her bestselling, prize-winning and phenomenally successful Richard and Judy pick HALF OF A YELLOW SUN. Told with the vividness and insight that make her novels exception... Buy or find out more →
Half Of A Yellow Sun (Audio CD)
$40.00 – Compact disc / Harper Collins
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Half Of A Yellow Sun
$19.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Purple Hibiscus
$22.95 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected i... Buy or find out more →
Purple Hibiscus
$16.99 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
The limits of fifteen–year–old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, st... Buy or find out more →
The Thing Around Your Neck
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals including Granta, and won the International PEN/David Wong award in 2003. Purple Hibiscus, her first novel, ... Buy or find out more →