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.