Half of a Yellow Sun - Chidamamanda Ngozi Adichie
By Dimple | November 22nd, 2008 | Category: Award Winners, Literature, Modern Fiction, Semi-Autobiographies | No Comments »Adichie’s Half of a yellow Sun is a story about war, and of love. Chidamamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote her second novel based on the Igbo people at the time of the Nigerian-Biafran war. Half of A Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction in Britain and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A humanity in print, the book is treasured wealth for the absent country; a precious inheritance of the deceased nation and its departed generation. The book starts with the early 1960’s at a reasonably peaceful time…