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Half of a Yellow Sun

Nigeria during the 1960s; a time of vicious civil war in which a million people die and thousands are massacred in cold blood. Three people 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. Another is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. The third 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.

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  • "Half of yellow sun"@he
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  • "Nigeria during the 1960s; a time of vicious civil war in which a million people die and thousands are massacred in cold blood. Three people 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. Another is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. The third 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."@en
  • "Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war."
  • "Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war."@en
  • "This 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."
  • "With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigboʹs beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parentsʹ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their fatherʹs business; and Kaineneʹs English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. -- Publisher description."
  • "Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. Now a major film starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, due for release in 2014. In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, goes to work for Odenigbo, a radical university professor. Soon they are joined by Olanna, a young woman who has abandoned a life of privilege to live with her charismatic lover. Into their world comes Richard, an English writer, who has fallen for Olanna's sharp-tongued sister Kainene. But when the shocking horror of civil war engulfs the nation, their loves and loyalties are severely tested, while their lives pull apart and collide once again in ways none of them could have imagined..."@en
  • "Three Nigerians are caught up in the turmoil created by Biafra's struggle for an independent government."
  • "In het leven van een arme jongen, een vrouw uit de middenklasse en een blanke schrijver tekent zich het dagelijks leven van Nigerianen af tot in de jaren zestig de burgeroorlog uitbreekt."
  • "A profoundly gripping story told primarily through the eyes and lives of Ugwu, a 13 year old peasant houseboy who survives conscription into the raggedy Biafran army, and twin sisters Olanna and Kainene, who are from a wealthy and well connected family. Tumultuous politics power the plot, and several sections are harrowing, particularly passages depicting the savage butchering of Olanna and Kainene's relatives. But this dramatic, intelligent epic has its lush and sultry side as well: rebellious Olanna is the mistress of Odenigbo, a university professor brimming with anticolonial zeal ; business-minded Kainene takes as her lover fair haired, blue eyed Richard, a British expatriate come to Nigeria to write a book about Igbo Ukwu art and whose relationship with Kainene nearly ruptures when he spends one drunken night with Olanna."
  • "With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor's beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna's twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another."@en
  • "With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor's beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna's twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another."
  • "Biyi Bandele makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor. In the late 1960s twin sisters Olanna (Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) arrive back home in Nigeria, having finished their studies in England. While Olanna moves in with her boyfriend, professor Odenigbo (Ejiofor), and his young houseboy, Ugwu (John Boyega), Kainene becomes a businesswoman and gets involved with British writer Richard (Joseph Mawle). When the Nigerian Civil War breaks out the sisters' lives are changed forever."
  • "When the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria seceded in 1967 to form the independent nation of Biafra, a bloody, crippling three-year civil war followed. Adichie tells her profoundly gripping story primarily through the eyes and lives of Ugwu, a 13-year-old peasant houseboy who survives conscription into the raggedy Biafran army, and twin sisters Olanna and Kainene, who are from a wealthy and well-connected family."@en
  • "A novel set during Nigeria's struggle for independence in the 1960s involving five characters including thirteen-year-old Ugwu, a university professor, the professor's mistress, and a young Englishman named Richard."

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  • "Political fiction"
  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "War stories"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Nigerian fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Roman africain de langue anglaise"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Nigerijské romány"
  • "Text"
  • "History"@he
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Italian language"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Romans (teksten)"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Politique-fiction"
  • "Roman nigérian de langue anglaise"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Translations"
  • "Roman historique"

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  • "Half of a Yellow Sun"@en
  • "Połówka żółtego słońca"@pl
  • "Half of a yellow sun"@en
  • "Half of a yellow sun"
  • "Die Hälfte der Sonne : Roman"
  • "En halv gul sol"@da
  • "En halv gul sol"@sv
  • "En halv gul sol"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Medio Sol Amarillo/ Half Yellow Sun"
  • "Pola žutog sunca"
  • "Půl žlutého slunce"
  • "Half of a yellow sun : a novel"
  • "Een halve gele zon"
  • "Hirugen aḍak"
  • "Polovica žutog sunca"
  • "Puolikas keltaista aurinkoa"@fi
  • "Nửa mặt trời vàng"
  • "Medio sol amarillo"
  • "Medio sol amarillo"@es
  • "Metà di un sole giallo"@it
  • "Metà di un sole giallo"
  • "Polovina zheltogo solnt︠s︡a"
  • "Half of a yellow sun : [a novel]"
  • "חצי שמש צהובה"
  • "Половина желтого солнца"
  • "Polovica rumenega sonca"
  • "Polovica rumenega sonca"@sl
  • "Ḥatsi shemesh tsehubah"
  • "L'autre moitié du soleil"
  • "Dakrysmenos hēlios"
  • "L'autre moitié du soleil : roman"

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