Half of a Yellow Sun
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**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!**
THE WOMENโS PRIZE FOR FICTION โWINNER OF WINNERSโ
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
โA literary masterpieceโ DAILY MAIL
โAn immense achievementโ OBSERVER
In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer. And Richard, a shy Englishman, is in thrall to Olannaโs enigmatic twin sister. Amongst the horror of Nigeriaโs civil war, loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined.
Winner of the Womenโs Prize for Fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieโs masterpiece is a novel about race, class and the end of colonialism โ and the ways in which love can complicate everything.
โA gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayalโ TIME
โVividly written, thrumming with life ... a remarkable novelโ JOYCE CAROL OATES
โAdichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelistsโ ELLE
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her first novel โPurple Hibiscusโ was published in 2003 and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her second novel โHalf of a Yellow Sunโ won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her short story collection, โThe Thing Around Your Neckโ, was published to critical acclaim in 2009. Her work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the BBC Short Story Awards, has appeared in various literary publications, including Zoetrope and The Iowa Review. She won a MacArthur โgeniusโ grant in 2009, and in 2010 appeared on the New Yorkerโs list of the best 20 writers under 40. Her third novel, โAmericanahโ, was published to widespread critical acclaim in 2013. โHalf of a Yellow Sunโ is now a major feature film, โAmericanahโ is in production. She lives in Nigeria.
