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100 1 $aAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi,$d1977-
245 10 $aHalf of a yellow sun /$cChimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
260 $aRearsby :$bW.F. Howes Ltd.,$c2006.
300 $a709 pages ;$c24 cm$f(large print)
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520 $aThis novel is set in Nigeria in 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 get 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 other is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's 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 novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic and tribal allegiances, about class and race; and the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
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