Half of a Yellow Sun
- Format: Paperback
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At the moment, we only deliver to customers in Ibadan and Abuja. If you will like to have books delivered to you anywhere else in Nigeria, please visit our konga store to make your order.Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece, winner of the Orange prize for fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race - and about the ways love can complicate all these things.
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigerian is under military dictatorship and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her but post 9/11 Americ..
Ebinimi, star mechanic of Kalakala Street, is a man with hapless knack for getting in and out of trouble. Some of his troubles are self-inflicted : like his recurring entanglements in love triangles, and his unauthorized joyriding of a customer's car which sets off a chain of dire events involved drugs, crooked politicians and assassins. Other troubles are caused by the panorama of characters in h..
