Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I read this novel for my social justice bookclub run by Amnesty International. We meet at the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square to discuss issues around social justice and global issues.
This book is based loosely on political events in nineteen-sixties Nigeria, and focuses on two wealthy Igbo sisters, Olanna and Kainene. The sisters each fall in love with very different men and the story follows them and other characters who come into their lives. The book does a great job of showing different socioeconomic cultures and how war affects them differently. She is a good author and creates vivid characters. It is a disturbing book and made our group really look at how there are so many conflicts that we know so little about. Interestingly enough, one of the book club members had gone to Nigeria around that time to visit her boyfriend in the Peace Corp and couldn't believe how little she knew about this conflict and how it affected the Nigerian people.
“A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal during the Biafran war.”
—Time magazine (February 12, 2007)
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read this last year and loved it! painted an amazing picture of something I knew nothing about.
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