With effortless grace, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates in her second novel aseminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle toestablish 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 professorfull of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who hasabandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm, and Richard, ashy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s wilful twin sister Kainene. Thesecharacters are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imaginedpossible. Half of a Yellow Sun is an electrifying modern masterpiece about the ways inwhich love complicates everything.
