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Half of a yellow sun
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- **DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!**THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'WINNER OF WINNERS'One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''A literary masterpiece'DAILY MAIL'An immense achievement'OBSERVERIn 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 Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. Amongst the horror of Nigeria's civil war, loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined.Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece is a novel about race, class and the end of colonialism - and the ways in which love can complicate everything.'A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal' TIME'Vividly written, thrumming with life … a remarkable novel' JOYCE CAROL OATES'Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists' ELLE
- About The Author
- CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than 55 languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Financial Times. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Winner of Winners" award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; the essays We Should All Be Feminists, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, and Notes on Grief; and Mama's Sleeping Scarf, a book for children. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780007200283
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- 4th Estate, (16 January 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 433
- Weight
- 310 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 28 mm
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