HalfofaYellowSun

Praise for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun “At once historical and eerily current…. Like Nadine Gordimer, [Adichie] likes to position her characters at crossroads where public and private allegiances threaten to collide…. [Half of a Yellow Sun] speaks through history to our war-racked age.” —The New York Times Book Review “Destined to become a classic…. This book confirms the notion that if you want to understand a country’s soul, read its fiction.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “[Half of a Yellow Sun] is Tolstoyan in its grasp of history and in its ability to traverse various ends of the social spectrum from a village manservant to the daughter of wealthy bureaucrats.” —The Denver Post “Adichie’s fully realized and finely observed characters hook the reader and carry the story through wrenching events to its sorrowful, tragic conclusion…. By venturing so fearlessly into complex moral territory, Adichie reveals her talents as a novelist as well as her gifts as a perceptive observer of human behavior.” —Newsday “A novel that [uses] fiction to its best advantage, telling the stories of ordinary people— loving, fal......