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Half of a Yellow Sun

von Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction History

ISBN

9780007200276

Verlag

HarperCollins Us

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Historical Fiction Nigerian Civil War 1960s Africa Colonialism Ethnic Conflict Political Turmoil Moral Responsibility Class Struggle Race Relations Love and War Family Dynamics Cultural Identity Literary Fiction Adult Fiction Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie African Literature War and Conflict Social Issues Interpersonal Relationships

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The sweeping new novel from the author of Purple Hibiscus.This sweeping new novel from the author of Purple Hibiscus 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 extraordinary 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.Chimanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004.