# Half of a Yellow Sun

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- Book: [Half of a Yellow Sun](https://www.bookquiver.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun) ([Half of a Yellow Sun.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun.md))
- Authors: [Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie](https://www.bookquiver.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-439-2
- Pages: 558
- Published: 2027-10-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

With effortless grace, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates in her second novel a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm, and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s wilful twin sister Kainene. These characters are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined possible. Half of a Yellow Sun is an electrifying modern masterpiece about the ways in which love complicates everything.