Half of a Yellow Sun
Editorial HARPER COLLINS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher HARPER COLLINS
- ISBN13 9780007506071
- ISBN10 0007506074
- Type Book
- Pages 433
- Collection INGLES #
- Published 2014
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
English LiteratureHalf of a Yellow Sun
Editorial HARPER COLLINS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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…