Half of a Yellow Sun

Name: Half of a Yellow Sun
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9781400044160

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2006

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread

Nigeria Biafra war colonialism

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Our Take

Adichie reconstructs the Biafran War through three figures — twins from a wealthy Igbo family and the English man who loves one of them. The war is also famine, is also betrayal, is also the specific failure of postcolonial nationalism. The novel of record for a catastrophe the world chose not to watch.

Appears In

► Colonialism and Its Aftermath — The Wound That Runs Forward ► Post-Colonial Africa — The Nation After the Empire

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