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Half of a yellow sun

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: London : Harper Perennial, 2007.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor's beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Political fiction
Historical fiction
Fiction
History
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780007200283 0007200285
OCLC Number: 78988623
Notes: Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2006.
Awards: Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007.
Description: 433 pages ; 20 cm
Responsibility: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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