Half of a Yellow Sun
  • Published:
    Sep-2006 (Hardcover)
    Sep-2007 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    1960's-1970's Contemporary
  • Pages:
    543
  • Age Level:
    14-18
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With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo's beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents' world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father's business; and Kainene's English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place.
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    • Sep-2007
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0676978134
    • ISBN13: 9780676978131
    •  
    • Sep-2007
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0676978134
    • ISBN13: 9780676978131
    •  
    • Jan-2007
    • Fourth Estate (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0007200285
    • ISBN13: 9780007200283
    •  
    • Sep-2007
    • Anchor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1400095204
    • ISBN13: 9781400095209
    •  
    • Apr-2019
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0008329664
    • ISBN13: 9780008329662
    • First Edition
    • Sep-2006
    • Knopf (Canada)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0676978126
    • ISBN13: 9780676978124
    •  
    • Jan-2001
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0007259352
    • ISBN13: 9780007259359
    •  
    • Sep-2006
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1400044162
    • ISBN13: 9781400044160
    •  
    • Dec-2020
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0008459606
    • ISBN13: 9780008459604
    •  
    • Nov-2008
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307485773
    • ISBN13: 9780307485779
    •  
    • Nov-2008
    • Vintage Canada
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307373541
    • ISBN13: 9780307373540
    •  
    • Jan-2009
    • Fourth Estate (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0007279280
    • ISBN13: 9780007279289
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    • May-2007
    • HarperCollins Publishers Limited
    • Audible
    •  
    • Dec-2009
    • Recorded Books
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1436172098
    • ISBN13: 9781436172097
    •  
    • Aug-2015
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1501259334
    • ISBN13: 9781501259333
    •  
    • Sep-2017
    • HarperCollins Publishers Limited
    • Audible
    •  
    • Sep-2017
    • Random House Audio
    • Audible



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