Half of Yellow Sun was adapted by Biye Bandele for the cinema and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton. The novel’s searing treatment of the Biafran War saw Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie compared to, among others, Chinua Achebe, Ken Saro-Wiwa and Helon Habila. The lives of these three collide in unexpected ways as serious questions of ethnicity, politics and history play out. Ugwu his houseboy, Olanna the professor’s girlfriend, and Richard an English writer. It centres on a professor, Odenigbo, and three characters who lie in his orbit. Half of a Yellow Sun is set against the backdrop of the Biafran War, Nigeria’s bloody civil war fought from 1967 – 1970. It went on to win several awards including the Orange Prize for fiction. Purple Hibiscus was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in 2005.įurther critical acclaim came with the publication of her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun which was heralded almost immediately as a masterpiece. Set in Nigeria where she grew up, her debut is told through the eyes of a fifteen year old girl who is facing the challenges of living under the rule of her fanatically religious father and an oppressive state.
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