The release date for the English version of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is Sep 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Half of a Yellow Sun is a brilliant, eerie new book by a writer hailed by The Washington Post Book World as "the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe." It vividly recreates a crucial period in modern African history: Biafra's passionate fight for independence from Nigeria in the 1960s and the horrific violence that ensued.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie skillfully combines the seamless elegance of a natural storyteller with astounding empathy to skillfully intertwine the lives of three persons caught up in the turbulent decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu works as a houseboy for a professor at a university who is very passionate about revolution. The professor's stunning mistress, Olanna, left her privileged life in Lagos behind to pursue her new love's allure in a dusty university town. And Richard is a quiet young Englishman who is enamored with Olanna's twin sister, a mysterious person who defies categorization. Their principles and their loyalty to one other are put to the ultimate test when Nigerian forces approach and the three have to flee for their lives.
Half of a Yellow Sun is an amazing work that explores moral responsibility, the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race, and how love may confuse all of these themes. It is epic, ambitious, and brilliantly fulfilled. Adichie paints one of the most vivid, dramatic, and profoundly emotional portraits of contemporary Africa that we have ever seen by skillfully capturing the promise and the heartbreaking failures that characterized this time and place.