Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi <br/><br/>
Half of a yellow sun / 
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
 - London  Harper Perennial  2007 
 - 433 [16] p.  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates 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 willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780007200283 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nigerian History. Civil War, 1967 - 1970.--Nigeria.--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical Fiction.