Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) TP-Good

With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra”s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.

The New York Times – Rob Nixon

Half of a Yellow Sun takes us inside ordinary lives laid waste by the all too ordinary unraveling of nation states. When an acquaintance of Olanna s turns up at a refugee camp, she notices that — he was thinner and lankier than she remembered and looked as though he would break in two if he sat down abruptly. — It s a measure of Adichie s mastery of small things — and of the mess the world is in – that we see that man arrive, in country after country, again and again and again.