Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Biafran war through people who lived it.
you've never heard of the Biafran war and suspect that might be exactly the problem
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Nigeria, 1960s. The republic is barely independent when it fractures into civil war — the Igbo southeast declaring itself the nation of Biafra, the federal government blockading it into mass starvation. Adichie's parents lived through it. She wrote the novel they never had. Five characters across the war's arc — intellectuals, servants, a British man who thinks he understands — their lives pulled apart by a conflict the outside world mostly watched and then forgot. The most important Nigerian novel after Things Fall Apart.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Nigeria • West Africa
- Voice
- Written by a Nigerian author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
