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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Half of a Yellow Sun

Av Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!** THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’ One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' ‘A literary masterpiece’DAILY MAIL ‘An immense achievement’OBSERVER In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer. And Richard, a shy Englishman, is in thrall to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister. Amongst the horror of Nigeria’s civil war, loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined.Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece is a novel about race, class and the end of colonialism – and the ways in which love can complicate everything. ‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME ‘Vividly written, thrumming with life … a remarkable novel’ JOYCE CAROL OATES‘Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists’ ELLE
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-01-15
  • Mått: 129 x 197 x 26 mm
  • Vikt: 280 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 448
  • Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780007200283
  • Miljömärkning: Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best 2015
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her first novel ‘Purple Hibiscus’ was published in 2003 and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her second novel ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her short story collection, ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’, was published to critical acclaim in 2009. Her work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the BBC Short Story Awards, has appeared in various literary publications, including Zoetrope and The Iowa Review. She won a MacArthur ‘genius’ grant in 2009, and in 2010 appeared on the New Yorker’s list of the best 20 writers under 40. Her third novel, ‘Americanah’, was published to widespread critical acclaim in 2013. She lives in Nigeria.

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‘Heartbreaking, funny, exquisitely written and, without doubt, a literary masterpiece and a classic’ Daily Mail

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