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Item Details
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HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
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| By: |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0008205248 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780008205249 |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
30 June, 2016 |
| 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 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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