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HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
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| By: |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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£2.70 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0007200285 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007200283 |
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Currently 295 available |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2007 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BESTWinner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece |
| Synopsis: |
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BESTWinner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpieceUgwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race - and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best 2015
Winner of Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007
Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2007
Short-listed for Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award:
Short-listed for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2007
Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2007 |
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