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Autore: | Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda |
Titolo: | Half of a Yellow Sun |
Pubblicazione: | HarperCollins UK |
Disciplina: | 823.92 |
Soggetto non controllato: | Nigeria |
Fiction | |
Literature and fiction | |
Persona (resp. second.): | AndohAdjoa |
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Sommario/riassunto: | Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece.Now available as a digital download.This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character.As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Half of a Yellow Sun |
Titolo autorizzato: | Half of a Yellow Sun |
ISBN: | 0-00-726300-7 |
Formato: | Musica |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910148894003321 |
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