| Title:
|
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
|
| By: |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Adjoa Andoh, Kati Nicholl |
| Format: |
Downloadable audio file |
| List price:
|
£11.99 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0007263007 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007263004 |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
16 April, 2007 |
| Edition: |
Abridged edition |
| Description: |
Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece.Now available as a digital download. |
| Synopsis: |
Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece.Now available as a digital download.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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best 2015
Winner of Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007
Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2007
Short-listed for Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award:
Short-listed for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2007
Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2007 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |