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I just finished Chinamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half a Yellow Sun in audio fromAudible.co.uk read extremely well by Adjoa Adoh. A very moving book, especially if you remember the Biafra war and famine. It is the first book I have read of hers but will read more as she writes very well. The violence of the time is portrayed very well, yes in places it is quite graphic but not over the top and in small doses, but the overall feeling of a violent backdrop once the war starts is for ever there, She paint
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A powerful and memorable telling of the Biafran conflict from the shifting perspectives of several fascinating characters: twin sisters from a newly wealthy Igbo family, their lovers -- a Nigerian academic and an English writer manqué -- and their "houseboy" Ugwu, whose own story forms the moral core of the novel.
Adichie begins by painting a lively scene in a provincial Nigerian university town, then with unstinting clarity and ferocious honesty shows how that world was shaken and then destroyed ...more
Adichie begins by painting a lively scene in a provincial Nigerian university town, then with unstinting clarity and ferocious honesty shows how that world was shaken and then destroyed ...more
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