Ebook {Epub PDF} Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Overview. Chimamanda Adichie’s second book, Half of a Yellow Sun, is set during the Nigerian Civil War that tragically occurred in her home country during the s. The story masterfully revolves around an intricate web of shifting viewpoints, each of which centers around one of the novel’s five main characters: Ugwu, Odenigbo, Olanna, Kainene, and Richard. Half of a Yellow Sun literature essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins.  · Judul: Half of a Yellow Sun Pengarang: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, penerjemah Rika Affiti Penerbit: Hikmah Tahun: , Agustus Tebal: hal.

Half of a Yellow Sun mostly deals with the Nigerian Civil War (also called the Biafran War), which took place between and Nigeria had only recently freed itself from British colonial rule at the time, and the country of Nigeria was itself an arbitrary unification (by its colonizers) of over different ethnic groups. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun offers a heart-wrenching account of the Biafran War (), beautifully wrapped in a story of love, loyalty, betrayal, resilience, and hope. She places a human face on a war that has been far removed from historical memory outside of Nigeria. As a result of the massacre of the Igbo people in the predominantly Muslim Hausa North, Igbos of. CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE's work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker and Granta. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize; Americanah, which won the NBCC Award and was a New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year; the story collection The Thing Around Your.

Half of a Yellow Sun takes place in Nigeria in the s. The book begins when Ugwu, an Igbo boy from a bush village, goes to Nsukka to work as a houseboy for Odenigbo, a professor and radical. Odenigbo is in love with Olanna, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy Nigerian. Olanna moves in with Odenigbo and meets his friends, who argue about politics every night. The novel starts in the early sixties, not long after the end of British colonial rule, presenting a nation, Nigeria, that did not exist before the British invented it. As the British continue to meddle in the shadows, the disparate peoples of newly independent Nigeria are left to figure out how to coexist. I discovered Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by accident last summer - I first read her novel Americanah and completely fell in love with her writing! The Half of a Yellow Sun is a wonderful story about the people fighting for their life, believes, love, a story marvellously told by someone who has the particular events written in their family chronicles, DNA, history.