Half of a Yellow Sun

from fegolac

This novel is ostensibly about the Biafran war, but it's also about identity in modern Nigeria. It spends a lot of its pages exploring the daily lives and inner thoughts of three people from very different backgrounds and how they experienced the changes that were happening around them. This, alo...

from nmele

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an extraordinary novelist, and this is an extraordinary and challenging novel about the Biafra War. She does not flinch from describing atrocities and injustices but she tells her story through the eyes of believable characters, some of whom suffer terribly through the...

from nmele

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an extraordinary novelist, and this is an extraordinary and challenging novel about the Biafra War. She does not flinch from describing atrocities and injustices but she tells her story through the eyes of believable characters, some of whom suffer terribly through the...