Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Rehearsals for Living

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Print Length: 450 pages

Genre: Novel, Fiction / Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction

Area: Nigeria

Topic: Betrayal, Civil War, Class, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Love, Race, Racism & Anti-Racism, Justice, Violence & Mass Violence

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

PART ONE: The Early Sixties

Chapter 1-6

PART TWO: The Late Sixties

Chapter 7-18

PART THREE: The Early Sixties

Chapter 19-24

PART FOUR: The Late Sixties

Chapter 25-37

Author’s Note

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left for the US at the age of 19 to continue her education on a different path. She graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science. She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in African History from Yale University. She was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year. In 2008, she received a MacArthur Fellowship. She has received honorary doctorate degrees from numerous universities around the world. Adichie’s work has been translated into over thirty languages.

Source: https://www.chimamanda.com/about/

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