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020 $a9780007279289 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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100 1 $aAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi $q(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie).
245 10 $aHalf of a Yellow Sun$h[electronic resource].
260 $aGlasgow :$bHarperCollins,$c2009.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aWinner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece.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.
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bGlasgow :$cHarperCollins,$d2009.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 574 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 574 KB).
653 #0 $aFiction
653 #0 $aLiterature
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