![]() Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had. Adichie drew on first-hand eyewitness accounts from her parents and. On a factual level, this novel has deep roots in the events of 1967 to 1970. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.Įpic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race-and the ways in which love can complicate them all. Half of a Yellow Sun is one of those books. ![]() And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. Separately, each character in Chimamanda’s novel had hopes, dreams, ambitions, and regrets that haunted. ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’s’ simplicity as related to dialoguing made the novel add the element of post-independence and war-torn Nigeria perfectly. Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. Chimamanda explored using dialogues strikingly similar to people of the time and era. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. ![]()
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