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Endah rated it:

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11/19/08

Read in November, 2008

Sumpah! Sebelum membaca novel ini, saya tidak tahu bahwa ada negara Biafra di peta dunia. Bahkan nama Biafra pun baru pertama kali ini saya dengar. Republik kecil ini terletak di sebelah tenggara Nigeria. Tetapi itu dahulu. Kalau Anda mencarinya di peta bumi sekarang, sampai lebaran monyet pun tak akan bakal Anda temukan tanah air orang-orang Igbo itu. Sebab, Republik Biafra hanya berumur 3 tahun saja (30 Mei 1967 – 15 Januari 1970). Kini, Biafra kembali ke sejarah asalnya, menjadi bagian dar...more

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06/06/08

She did it again. And she did it (again) masterfully! While reading this novel I was often thinking of García Márquez’s words: ”The worst enemy of politicians is a writer” and I would amplify that with not only of politicians. Now, I’m not sure if Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has had intention to accuse (probably not) but you cannot avoid truth and, as always truth is hurting so badly.

Half of a Yellow Sun (related with Biafran flag, look the photo) is a story about birth and short life o...more She did it again. And she did it (again) masterfully! While reading this novel I was often thinking of García Márquez’s words: ”The worst enemy of politicians is a writer” and I would amplify that with not only of politicians. Now, I’m not sure if Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has had intention to accuse (probably not) but you cannot avoid truth and, as always truth is hurting so badly.

Half of a Yellow Sun (related with Biafran flag, look the photo) is a story about birth and short life of Biafra, life that ended in one of the worst possible way while “the world was silent when they died” . Before reading this book I didn’t know much about Biafra, I didn’t even know it was an independent country (*blush* I should know that!). For me Biafra was a synonym for starvation, for hunger, misery, I was always picturing children with huge bellies and limbs like toothpicks. Now I know the word for that: ”kwashiorkor”, difficult word isn’t it?

Everything started 1960 when Nigeria independence from British colonialism; few years later there was a coup d’état led by Igbo tribe. Since Nigeria was the country with many clans ethnic tension started to sparkle between Muslim Hausa and Christian Igbo clans and eventually resulted with ethnic cleansing of Igbos that were living in the north of the country with Muslim majority. Because of that atrocity Igbo clan has proclaimed independence of theirs own country named after Biafran Bay in the southeast of Nigeria (the problem was, as one of the characters said was the fact that Biafra has huge oil reserves). Few countries have recognized new country, however the most powerful ones (i.e. United Kingdom and Soviet Union) supported Nigeria with military supplies and after three years (1967-1970) the war of Biafra secession ended in a humanitarian catastrophe as Nigerian blockades stopped all supplies, military and civilian alike, from entering the region. Hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) people died in the resulting famine.

The story has been told through the lives of three very different people: Ugwu,13 year old boy from some remote village who is starting to work as a houseboy in the house of university professor with revolutionary aspirations. Ugwu is a magnificent source of Nigerian (African?) folklore and mythology. His superstitious-ness is beautiful, pure and incredibly authentic. Being uneducated his provincialism and thinking of everything authentically African as inferior comparing with everything British is very strong! (I sound as if I’m justifying his attitude with that “being uneducated”, well it’s really hard dislike Ugwu)
Olanna, young women with university diploma from London, member of Nigerian aristocracy who rejected privileged life and follow her heart. Strong, modern, enthusiastic woman with strong vision of her future life liberated from the chains of her family’s expectations.
Third one is Richard, man I identified myself with. He’s an Englishman who came in Nigeria because he fell in love with the ancient piece of local art (I think I could do the same). Man who being white has had to put much more effort to prove himself as true Biafran and was doing this in the best possible way.
What I especially like is that all three main characters are real humans; they are not flawless. On the contrary, they are making horrible mistakes which might be even unforgivable under different circumstances.

But this is not only story about the war. War with its horror is scenery for the story of love, loyalty, friendship, betrayal, forgiveness about fight and survival. It is very universal story placed in one precise historical context.

Truth, some of the scenes are so graphically described that I had to close the book and take a deep breath before continue. But of course why should she use euphemism for truth? In spite that this is really page turner. I was little afraid after warning from the back cover “I wasted last fifty pages, reading them far too greedily and fast, because I couldn’t bear to let go…” but I’ve done the same (and of course then reread them).
This is one testimony of the things that mustn’t be forgotten! And oh, don’t be surprised if you find your eyes filled with tears. In spite the fact that last sentence wasn’t surprise for me, that I expected that, I couldn’t help myself......less

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Jess rated it:

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03/20/08

Read in November, 2007

Okay, so if I got to pick how I learn my world history of civilized cultures, I would pick to have this author, or a fair equivalent, write this kind of heartfelt bio of the defining struggles in their generation.

I bought this because I had heard this woman interviewed months before when it came out in hardcover. The interview intrigued me - the author spoke about how she was able to write from the perspective of a young boy (I think he is 12 when we start).
The book is really about the...more

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04/19/08

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Read in April, 2008

recommended to Hannah by: Kate
recommends it for: People who know a bit more about Nigerian/Biafran history and politics than me!

I'm getting into a bad habit with not finishing books, but I found this book really challenging and it didn't interest me enough for it to be an enjoyable challenge; it was just a chore. I'm not familiar at all with African politics, and I don't think Adichie really had that sort of audience in mind when writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun' - again, perhaps if I had engaged with her characters on a more personal level, or found the narrative more interesting, then this would have been a great opportun...more I'm getting into a bad habit with not finishing books, but I found this book really challenging and it didn't interest me enough for it to be an enjoyable challenge; it was just a chore. I'm not familiar at all with African politics, and I don't think Adichie really had that sort of audience in mind when writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun' - again, perhaps if I had engaged with her characters on a more personal level, or found the narrative more interesting, then this would have been a great opportunity for me to learn about another culture like I did with 'The Kite Runner'. But all I felt was exclusion via the foreign politics, culture and history. I'm sure there were some explanations in there somewhere, admittedly I know more about the Nigerian Civil War now than I did before I started, but it wasn't sufficient or explicit enough for me to truly empathise with what I was reading as a complete outsider to the book's themes.

I do, however, greatly admire Adichie's prose. Her descriptions were vivid and original with some really stunning metaphors. I was gripped by her imagery by the first page, although later I think this poetic style of writing became a downfall. For example, the incessant descriptions of graphic, violent or harrowing events eventually became a kind of routine; I expected bad things to happen and I expected bad things to be described in detail. Both these expectations pretty quickly led to me being unaffected emotionally or intellectually, and I lost interest.

Another praise-worthy aspect of her writing was her ability to create very human characters. Although I only really found myself forming an attachment to Richard (perhaps because he was almost as much of an outsider as I felt!) there's no denying she really developed her protagonists, however again (at least to where I got up to) this may have been another negative, in my opinion, as nothing bad ever seemed to happen directly to any of them - they only witnessed it, or someone they knew well or loved had something terrible happen to them which seems a bit idealistic considering the bloodshed on their doorsteps.

Had it been half the length, I think I could have finished and enjoyed it - as it was, the story just seemed stretched and stretched, and the unchronological parts switching between the early and late 60s didn't help me to follow Nigeria/Biafra's history or Adichie's convoluted narrative....less

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08/02/07

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Read in July, 2007

Set in Nigeria in the 1960s, Half of a Yellow Sun tells the story of estranged twin sisters, Olanna and Kainene, as rising ethnic and nationalist tensions culminate in the Biafran secession and subsequent war. It's a fascinating and powerful book on many levels, detailing a conflict which the majority of people in the west are shamefully ignorant of; and yet I'm of two minds about it.

I liked the clarity of Adichie's prose, the intelligence and observation with which she writes, and w...more

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Sandy rated it:

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07/24/07

Read in July, 2007

recommends it for: Anyone who likes a heart-felt, informative read

The Biafran civil war, a terrible blot on Nigerian history and humanity, has not surprisingly, found voice in almost all major literary works produced in the country so far. Adichie was not born when the war happened but says that she grew up in its shadows and could never forget how she lost several of her family members to a situation, which was entirely man-made. This naturally, allows the author to recount incidents with unusual fervour, giving graphic images of the horrors that descended on...more The Biafran civil war, a terrible blot on Nigerian history and humanity, has not surprisingly, found voice in almost all major literary works produced in the country so far. Adichie was not born when the war happened but says that she grew up in its shadows and could never forget how she lost several of her family members to a situation, which was entirely man-made. This naturally, allows the author to recount incidents with unusual fervour, giving graphic images of the horrors that descended on Biafrans, following the breakout of military action.
So what was this civil was about? Well, much like the pattern that Britishers followed for India, they simply clubbed together the regions they held in part of Africa, consisting of people of diverse races and religions, and called it Nigeria at the time of its independence.
While the Housa Muslim tribe populated Northern Nigeria, the South consisted of the Igbo, a Christian race. Ever since the country got freedom in 1960, there was deep resentment brewing between the Housa and other tribes who believed that the Igbos held all the prime positions in the country. A military coup by an Igbo colonel follows a counter coup by the Northern army, supported by the West. Soon, Igbo soldiers are brutally murdered all over the northern territory. Col Ojukwu, puts forth the idea of a separate Igbo state called Baifra and takes control of all the oil rich territories. The Nigerian government is not willing to take the rebellion lying down and what follows is a deadly war, which tests its victims in a shockingly inhuman way.
Even as the Nigerian army captures one Biafran region after another, the Igbo population is pushed into a corner, literally and all food links are blocked, leading to intense starvation with people scrambling for food. So while people in other parts of Nigeria worry about silk laces and their golf sessions, the other part scrambles for dried lizards and crickets to eat!

This is the story Adichie narrates in her book and she does it through the lives of four people living in Nigeria. The author’s central characters are twin sisters, Olanna and Kainene, daughters of a rich businessman. However, none of them are especially interested in their father’s wealth and choose their own paths. While Olanna starts living in with prof Odenigbo, her anti-colonial, ‘revolutionary boyfriend’ ---as the brazen Kainene prefers to call him, the latter herself dates Richard, a bashful British expatriate, who is sympathetic to the Biafra cause.
To give a glimpse of the colonial Nigeria that still existed, the author introduces us to Ugwu, a teenager, who is brought from his village to be a housekeeper to ‘master’ Odenigbo.

The book starts in the early 60’s, a comparably idyllic time when Odenigbo’s friends come over each evening and engage in heated, intellectual debates. In the dim-lit room, amidst the clinging of beer bottles and exotic, herbal stews, it’s a time, when the generation’s finest brains are working out Nigeria’s future.
The coup throws the characters apart. Ollana and Odenigbo first move into a humble three-room house, quite content as long as they know they are part of the Biafra cause. But as the Nigerian army closes in, the couple, with a child (Odenigbo’s illegitimate one) in tow and Ugwu, find it find it impossible to retain even a semblance of dignity to their lives.

To the author’s credit, she weaves this long forgotten human-interest story, with a sultry, lush family tale, about love, betrayal and redemption. In fact, Adichie is clearly at her best here.

...for a detailed review of the book, please do visit me on my blog, sandyi.blogspot.com

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Philip rated it:

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09/19/08

Something of a disappointment

It is not often that a novel comes to hand that has been prized, praised and pre-inflated. Half of a Yellow Sun was in that category when I opened it and began to read. And I was captivated immediately. I read the first hundred pages at a pace, delighting in the ease with which the Chimanada Ngozi Adichie used language to draw me into the middle-class clique centred on the University of Nsukka which provides the core characters of her book. Their infidelities, th...more Something of a disappointment

It is not often that a novel comes to hand that has been prized, praised and pre-inflated. Half of a Yellow Sun was in that category when I opened it and began to read. And I was captivated immediately. I read the first hundred pages at a pace, delighting in the ease with which the Chimanada Ngozi Adichie used language to draw me into the middle-class clique centred on the University of Nsukka which provides the core characters of her book. Their infidelities, their inconsistencies, their desire, despite the servants, for equality and freedom are symptomatic of their time. The dissimilar twin sisters, Olanna and Kainene, one imagines will provide a vehicle for parallel and different lives, providing contrast and metaphor, and I eagerly awaited their stories to unfold.

The book’s sections alternate between the early and late 1960s, the latter period in Nigeria, of course, being the Biafran War. And, yes, the characters live through the war, and their lives and their natures, and along with them their country, are transformed by it. Perhaps even their own identity is redrawn, especially once the promise of a recognised nationality is promised and then denied. Eventually there are vivid scenes of the war’s brutality, its double standards, its compromises, its cynicism, its racism and its starvation. The images are graphic and vivid, unforgettable even, and the ability of war to undermine utterly and profoundly any assumption that an individual might harbour about an imagined future is movingly portrayed.

So why then was I so disappointed with the book? All I can offer, I’m afraid, is that eventually I found it shallow. Its apparent concentration on the domestic lives of the characters undermined their credibility as members of an intellectual elite and rendered them two (or perhaps even one) dimensional. Chimanada Ngozi Adichie carefully tells us that Odenigbo is a mathematician and in love with his subject. He covets his personal library, which he loses in the war and then has replaced by a benefactor. But in my experience, mathematicians are passionate people – and are usually passionate about mathematics. No mathematician I have ever met avoids all mention of personal academic interests in social settings as scrupulously as Odenigbo. I didn’t want the novel to become a textbook, but if characters were ballet dancers, surely we would expect to hear of the roles they had danced and the music that had moved them. Of Odenigbo’s academic character we hear nothing. Why is he therefore endowed with knowledge and interest that is never explored? Perhaps he only exists as a character to interact with the twin sisters.

And the problem is repeated with Richard Churchill who, we are told is an Igbo-speaking English radical. I knew a lot of sixties radicals and they were never slow to offer an opinion or, indeed, place themselves squarely in a space on the ideological chessboard. In Half of a Yellow Sun, we never learn if Richard is a Marxist, Maoist, Leninist or Trot. He never mentions Castro or Ho Chi Minh. He doesn’t appear to have any position on capitalism, society, business, the Third World, South Africa, Central America or even Viet Nam. I found myself wondering which sixties decade saw his radicalisation. When Chimanada Ngozi Adichie tells us that he travels to Lagos to attend a function in honour of the state funeral of Winston Churchill (perhaps no relation), I began to wonder if he was an early- (or indeed late) born radical Tory. I have been an expatriate myself, so I can forgive him his attendance of the function, but not his total silence on the issues of the day.

This becomes especially problematic when both Britain and the Soviet Union are mentioned as assisting the Federal Forces in the destruction of secessionist Biafra. What sixties radical, given the inevitability of his assumption of a Cold War bifurcated paradigm to underpin his ideological position, would not have pondered and discussed this at length, even in bed?

Eventually we also have to read along with continued adulation of Ojukwu. His Excellency might even be the Great Helmsman, himself, given that his free-thinking minions seem unable to mention a criticism of an historical character who eventually fled to Ivory Coast to save his skin and live his life in relative comfort after leaving millions of his own people dead. Perhaps he had to be preserved to fight another day, as he eventually did, if in a different way, but surely no sixties radical would have left his role unquestioned. It doesn’t ring true, and an opportunity to develop a character like Richard through his own and inevitable disillusion was ignored.

And then we are presented with a pair of American journalists that the radical Richard has to greet and service in his role as a promoter of the Biafran cause. They are both called Charles and apparently have the same nickname, Chuck – which surely should have been Charlie of the “right” variety to enhance the farce. They are simply not credible. We can probably accept as deadly accurate that the majority of Americans neither knew where Biafra was nor cared a jot about its plight, since the attentions of the politicised were focused elsewhere at the time. But the presentation of a pair of foreign correspondents as crass as these is surely incredible, as is, equally, Richard’s apparent patience in dealing with them.

I did also become mildly annoyed at what became quite extensive use of Igbo words when they seemed to offer no extra flavour, meaning or understanding. I have no problem with the use of local terms to enhance a feeling of place and sound, but their over use tends to obfuscate. We really wanted to know what these people thought, but we were never told.

So what are we left with? Half of a Yellow Sun is a beautifully written, beautifully composed domestic tale of fidelity, infidelity, loyalty and opportunism. The contrast between the characters’ and therefore the nation’s lives at the start and the end of the decade is engaging. But because their psyches are never really explored, we never understand any motives or, therefore, any consequences. Reading Half of a Yellow Sun was a thoroughly enjoyable experience which, with hindsight, I would have foregone.
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06/22/08

This is a recent winner of the Orange Prize, and deservedly so.

Adichie's wonderful narrative skills are showcased in this book, in which she relates the post-colonial horrors in Nigeria, which, like most African nations, is comprised of many different regions, which co-exist within artificial boundaries drawn by the European powers that formerly controlled the area. In drawing these boundaries, little concern was shown for the historic African boundaries or population groups. This book, lik...more This is a recent winner of the Orange Prize, and deservedly so.

Adichie's wonderful narrative skills are showcased in this book, in which she relates the post-colonial horrors in Nigeria, which, like most African nations, is comprised of many different regions, which co-exist within artificial boundaries drawn by the European powers that formerly controlled the area. In drawing these boundaries, little concern was shown for the historic African boundaries or population groups. This book, like "The Poisonwood Bible" and "The Darling", made me so angry at the countries which colonized and converted African countries and then left them in total chaos, no longer able to function on their own, an entire continent fractured and dependent. Before colonization, Africa's tribal culture and systems worked for its peoples, but the white man destroyed these. Perhaps the Africans did not live the way Westerners want to live, but who are we to say that their way was wrong?

In 1967, Nigeria's Igbo people, living in the eastern part of the country, seceded and formed the independent republic of Biafra, thus touching off a three-year civil and ethnic war of such horror, barbarism, and mass starvation that can hardly be imagined. We see a people totally unprepared for the ravages of war: cut off from the rest of the world, babies dying, unable to get the barest necessities of life. The reader is struck by the naiveté of the Biafrans who believed that they could actually win against the Nigerian forces. One reviewer bluntly said that Biafra was another child of war, dead at birth. By early 1970, starved into submission, the Republic of Biafra ceased to exist.

Rather than a story of the war, Adichie tells a story through the minds and experiences of several well-developed characters as she explores the ethnic prejudices of the Africans and the religious differences of Muslims versus Christians in Nigeria as its social fabric was torn apart. The presence of oil in the eastern part of the country made it unthinkable that one ethnic group could control it. Oil and religious differences....hmmmm, does that sound familiar?

The stories of affluent twin sisters, their families, friends, and servants are seamlessly woven together as they struggle to survive the atrocities and brutality of war and starvation yet try to keep their dream alive. It is a story of war, love, ideals, compromise, loyalty, betrayal, and the culture of Africa.

This novel immediately captivated me and would not let me go....it was enlightening and educational, meticulously researched, powerful and complex. This young author avoids making the book a political screed by making it personal and human. Dramatic and haunting, this is a book you will not soon forget....less

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04/09/08

Read in April, 2008

recommended to Raghu by: Tony

This novel is a love story set in the backdrop of the Biafran civil war in Nigeria in the late 1960's. The main characters are a pair of twin sisters who are well-connected and from the upper strata of Nigerian society belonging to the Igbo tribe. The author takes us through their love life - Olanna with her Igbo left-wing revolutionary academic Odenigbo and her twin Kainene with her white English journalist and aspiring author Richard. As the story unfolds, you get an idea of the liberal sexual...more

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Jasper rated it:

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06/07/08

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Read in June, 2008

This book is good, flow easily from page 1 and was like a smooth glass of perfumed white wine after a whole load of harsh throat grabbers BUT I had a few problems with it that left me feeling troubled:

1. Some of the characters were actually caricatures, Richard was hardly believable as a real person and the basis for his character as described by her in a Radio 4 interview recently (based in part on Frederick Forsyth??!!) belies the character she presents us - misplaced, impotent, well meani...more

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03/10/08

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Read in March, 2008

I really liked this book, but even though the writing is superb and the author crafts a good story, I did not love it. The main reason is that I usually enjoy historical fiction books, but in this instance, I remember this era and the news coming out of Biafra/Nigeria, especially the news of the starving children with the huge bellies. (A close friend of mine endlessly collected money for this cause, to which I generously donated. Turns out the food the money was to provide probably never did ge...more

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05/13/08

Read in May, 2008

I am currently reading Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Half Of A Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction
435 pages

With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nige...more

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Sarah rated it:

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03/17/08

Read in March, 2008

Despite an embarrassingly shallow familiarity with African history, I have to think that this book does an amazing job of capturing a course of events that played out in most post-colonial countries across the continent. As a piece of literature, the book has its weaknesses including some romantic melodrama and an abrupt ending, but as a testimonial of the dehumanizing effects of civil war it is devastating. The characters are faced with making successively more debilitating compromises as the...more

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11/20/07

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Read in November, 2007

recommends it for: Maher, Simi, Shehab, Mahmud

The few times I could pause to meta-think while reading Chimamanda's brilliant narrative of the Biafran war, I was in awe of her ability to create character, plot, drama, to evoke history through fiction. She was able to get into the heads of characters are different as a young upper-class Ibo woman, a teenage village boy, a white man in Africa. Each person in "Half of a Yellow Sun" is compelling and complicated, and the story is intense.

I particularly liked the way she incorp...more

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03/20/08

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Read in March, 2008

A fiction based on non-fiction events. Background is the civil war in Nigeria with the formation of the country of Biafra (briefly) by the Igbo people. However, the emphasis is more on the relationships between two twin sisters and their partners, parents, family and friends. The author, an African, did an excellent job of portraying the events without making the book tedious, i.e., it remains a fiction/fast-read. A great balance of expressing the tension between modern and ancient Africa, as we...more

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01/09/08

Has a copy to sell/swap — Read in December, 2007

My book club introduced me to this fabulous author. Half of a Yellow Sun is a reference to the Biafran flag and this is a story of the Biafra seceding from Nigeria - ultimately unsuccessfully. A humanitarian crisis developed in the south during the war and this is a story highlighting the experiences of people from many walks of life during that time. I've ordered Purple Hibiscus - her first book - and look forward to reading it. I read on the author's website that she's now working on a sto...more

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Katherine rated it:

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09/06/08

Adichie’s novel begins in the early 1960s in newly independent Nigeria and follows a group of middle-class intellectuals through military coups, genocidal killings, and the secession of the doomed Igbo state, Biafra. I read this book right before I visited my fiance's family living in Igbo country in Nigeria. My future mother-in-law provided memories of war planes flying low enough overhead for her to see white pilots maneuvering the aircrafs. Although i will never be able to grasp this time ...more

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