Name: Half of a Yellow sun
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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9781400095209

Type

Physical Book

Author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN

1400095204

ISBN13

9781400095209

Synopsis "Half of a Yellow sun"

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists--a haunting story of love and war. - Recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Winner of Winners" award. With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor's beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover's charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna's willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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(Nigeria, 1977). A los diecinueve años consiguió una beca para estudiar comunicación y ciencias políticas en Filadelfia. Posteriormente cursó escritura creativa en la Universidad Johns Hopkins de Portland y obtuvo un máster de estudios africanos en la Universidad de Yale. Su reconocida TEDx Talk Querida Ijeawele. Cómo educar en el feminismo, se ha convertido en uno de los discursos feministas más divulgados y leídos de todos los tiempos. Actualmente vive entre Nigeria y Estados Unidos.

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