Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · first published 2006
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Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by Fourth Estate, the novel tells the story of the Biafran War through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard.
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I would recommend most of the books I read this year: * Born a Crime by Noah Trevor * Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi * Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Alexievich, Svetlana * Ex-Formation by Hara, Kenya (best book I read this year) * A Short History of Nearly Everything by…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗Half of a Yellow Sun[1] by Chimamanda Ngozi. If you want to sample probably a different style and culture, I would highly recommend this book. This is a 2006 novel by a prolific African writer and is set in the late 1960s…
on “Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?” ↗Highly recommend her work! I've read Americanah and loved it. My partner read Half of a Yellow Sun and also really enjoyed it.
on “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on what it means to be “an African writer”” ↗…Adebayo visited and said something about grief, something nice-sounding and facile: Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved. —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun “Joker” takes off from a facile premise and descends into incoherent political trolling as a result of scattershot plotting and antics—its director, Todd Phillips, appears not to see what he’s doing. —The…
on “Using the wrong dictionary (2014)” ↗