Half of a Yellow Sun

Posted on 18 January 2019 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as the 21st century daughter of Chinua Achebe, Half of a Yellow Sun re creates a seminal moment in modern African history Biafra s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed 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 Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race and the ways in which love can complicate them all Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had. Best Download Half of a Yellow Sun [ Author ] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr It came to me as an epiphany as I barreled through the last few pages of this book, blanketed in my Sunday evening lethargy, marveling at Adichie s graceful evocation of a forgotten time and place and feeling the embarrassment of having known nothing about the Biafran war, that somewhere in the Gaza strip the maimed bodies of children must lie strewn amidst the debris of their former lives while vicious debates rage on twitter in which people pick a side Israel or Hamas to defend from It came to me as an epiphany ...A few months ago I read Chinua Achebe s autobiography, There Was a Country , which depicted Nigeria s Biafran War 1967 1970 This book also deals with the events before and leading up to the war This book was marvelous The story just flows for the most part and the language used is so evocative I m sure people who have visited or lived in Africa will appreciate the descriptions of African life, African mentality, humour, nature and so on I have to admit, I much preferred the first half to A few months ago I read Chinua Achebe s autobiography, There Was a Country , which depicted Nigeria s Biafran War 1967 1970 This book also deals with the events before and leading up to the war This book was marvelous The story just flows for the most part and the language used is so evocative I m sure people who have visited or lived in Africa will appreciate the descriptions of African life, African mentality, humour, nature and so on I have to admit, I much preferred the first half to the second half It was hard to read about the Biafran war The copy of the book I had actually showed pictures of children during the war who had suffered from kwashiorkor It was truly heartbreaking To think so many tribal wars occurred because of colonialists drawing arbitrary borders and also favouring one ethni...Magic Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born 1977 seemed to possess a magic wand that she was able to weave a story that was not supposed to be interesting for me an Asian who have not been to Africa except seeing parts of that continent in the movies and reading Chinua Achebe s Things Fall Apart. Adichie turned an uninteresting story that speaks lucidly, bravely and beautifully about that tumultuous event that happened in her country Nigeria during the latter part of the 6...I read only about one third of this novel Adichie s CNA writing doesn t agree with me at all And the characters are so flat they should be able to slide under a door trouble free The characters don t even bother to play their role with its limited definition Instead they keep pounding their fists on a table and shouting out what their role is supposed to be I am a sardonic bitch , I am sooo non racist y...The world was silent when we died This casual statement he once heard is used as the title of a book written by one of the characters in this novel, in which Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie chronicles the birth, short and tortured life and death of the State of Biafra born on the 30th of May, 1967 from Nigeria and forcefully annexed back by the parent state, after a bitter war in which a million died, in January 1970.Most of us, I suspect, do not know about this short lived country Even Wikipedia The world was silent when we died This casual statement he once heard is used as the title of a book written by one of the characters in this novel, in which Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie chronicles the birth, short and tortured life and death of the State of Biafra born on the 30th of May, 1967 from Nigeria and forcefully annexed back by the parent state, after a bitter war in which a million died, in January 1970.Most of us, I suspect, do not know about this short lived country Even Wikipedia calls the war between Biafra and Nigeria a civil war , thus denying legitimacy to the erstwhile nation even though a number of countries recognised it Since history is always written by the victors, the voice of the losers are often submerged in the general background noise.I listened to a talk by the author a very impressive one about the danger of the single story the one that has been foisted on the world by the erstwhile colonial powers and called hi...Really loved this book Some of the characters were a bit bland and boring but it still kept me interested in them Loved Igwu Wish there was a book just about him.Something of a disappointmentIt is not often that a novel comes to hand that has been prized, praised and pre inflated Half of a Yellow Sun was in that category when I opened it and began to read And I was captivated immediately I read the first hundred pages at a pace, delighting in the ease with which the Chimanada Ngozi Adichie used language to draw me into the middle class cliqu...She did it again And she did it again masterfully While reading this novel I was often thinking of Garc a M rquez s words The worst enemy of politicians is a writer and I would amplify that with not only of politicians Now, I m not sure if Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has had intention to accuse probably not but you cannot avoid truth and, as always truth is hurting so badly.Half of a Yellow Sun related with Biafran flag, look the photo is a story about birth and short life of Biafra, She did it again And she did it again masterfully While reading this novel I was often thinking of Garc a M rquez s words The worst enemy of politicians is a writer and I would amplify that with not only of politicians Now, I m not sure if Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has had intention to accuse probably not but you cannot avoid truth and, as always truth is hurting so badly.Half of a Yellow Sun related with Biafran flag, look the photo is a story about birth and short life of Biafra, life that ended in one of the worst possible way while the world w...5 At the gates, Biafran soldiers were waving cars through They looked distinguished in their khaki uniforms, boots shining, half of a yellow sun sewn on their sleeves This story tracks a family as they transition from a position of influence and privilege with large, comfortable homes in Nigeria, to become citizens of the newly formed republic of Biafra After a slow to me beginning, I ended up fascinated by the story, the family, the people on the fringes of the family, the history, the 5 At the gates, Biafran soldiers were waving cars through They looked distinguished in their khaki uniforms, boots shining, half of a yellow sun sewn on their sleeves This story tracks a family as they transition fro...First read February 7 19, 2014Second read November 19 23, 2016Updated Review My thoughts on this after reading it a second time didn t change much If anything, it made me love Adichie eventhan I already did This confirmed that she s absolutely one of my all time favorite authors She s so observant and able to convey human emotion in such ...

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18 January 2019

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie