It was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times. Half of a Yellow Sun won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2007, given by British critics to the best work of extended fiction written by a woman, in English, the previous year. And the novel depicts war’s weighty and distorting influence on professional lives and ambitions, on relationships between people and nations, and on one’s moral identity. Leaders of the Biafran revolution are entangled in the novel with their romantic yearnings and their own clashing ideologies. In this way, she looked to the precursors like Tolstoy and Conrad. Adichie has said in interviews that she had the ambition in writing this novel to tell the story of Biafra, which she didn’t think had been told from a properly African perspective, but to transform history into art. Half of a Yellow Sun tells the story of Biafra’s stunted birth as a breakaway, revolutionary southern province of Nigeria and its elimination at the hands of the western-backed Nigerian government. Adichie may be best known to American students for her 2009 TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” which has been watched nearly 4 million times.Ĭlick above to stream Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story” It was published in 2006, by that country’s most internationally celebrated writer, after Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie. Half of a Yellow Sun is an epic historical novel, with a romance novel embedded within it, about the Nigerian Civil War (1967 – 1970).
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