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Half of a Yellow Sun

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Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007.

Synopsis

Nigeria during the 1960s; a time of vicious civil war in which a million people die and thousands are massacred in cold blood.

Three people get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. Another is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. The third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's sister, a remote and enigmatic character.

As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events...

Press Quotes

Daily Mail

“Funny, heartbreaking, exquisitely written and without doubt a literary masterpiece.”

Simon Mayo, Radio Five Live

“If I read a book as good as this in the next five years I'll be astounded.”