Half of a Yellow Sun (Abridged Edition)
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Half of a Yellow Sun (Abridged Edition)
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Adjoa Adoh
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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.
©2006 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UKWhat listeners say about Half of a Yellow Sun (Abridged Edition)
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- 25-07-2017
Shame it is an abridged version.
Too many different accents were attempted to the detriment of clarity of diction and pronunciation.
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- 03-07-2015
Great writing, very well read
Absorbing characters and story and very well written. My only criticism would be the broken narrative of the text, which I thought was unnecessary.
The narration of the audiobook was fantastic.
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- john
- 04-08-2017
Very interesting
The subject matter was really interesting and characters understandable despite there flaws in a desperate time. I didn't find the shifting timeline beneficial to the story.
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- Sally Cousens
- 21-02-2020
Loved this book
Interesting to learn about the Biafran war and how it affected the Nigerian people. Wonderfully developed characters and story. Marvellous narration brought the story to life.
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- Ruth
- 30-06-2015
Brilliant writer, thoroughly enjoyed
Liked the narrative of the Biafra war. Also enjoyed the different relationships and dynamics of them.
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- Jacimac
- 28-07-2015
Nigeria & Biafra
I learnt many things about the Biafra war & famine through this poetic story of 2 sisters divided by war. It is ugly& harsh in places, as war is. Overall though there is hope in humanity.
The melodious voice of the narrator is the best I have ever heard. She changes effortlessly from English to Nigerian & Biafran idiom. Highly recommended book.
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