Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race - and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

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Listening Length	18 hours and 9 minutes
Author	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrator	Zainab Jah
Audible.in Release Date	28 September 2017
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B075KQ3HLR
Best Sellers Rank	#1,266 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Audiobooks & Originals) #2 in War & Military Fiction #2 in Small Town & Rural Fiction #51 in Classic Literature

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Vanya Jaiswal

Deserted the book more than halfway through.

Reviewed in India on 28 February 2019

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Half of a Yellow Sun is a book that I left unfinished after reading 325 of its 400 pages or so. Now I am someone who does not normally like to leave books in the middle but with this one, I found myself vexed. It took me a while to analyse the factors that contributed to my exasperation regarding the book. But before I list the reasons of why the book didn’t work for me, I’d like to issue a disclaimer that this is a purely subjective view and you might love the book. So here goes:
1. I found the book’s plot repetitive and felt that it didn’t develop as time passed and pages piled up.
2. The language felt insipid and having read Adichie’s non fiction as well as her debut novel in the past, I know the potency of her writing and what she can otherwise deliver through it.
3. I felt that the characters were not sketched fully. Although the book is set during the time of the Biafran wars and envelopes both pre and post war era, the characters seemed unchanged and unaffected by the circumstances around them. It felt like they were removed from their immediate environment and functioned in an exterior, *fictional* world. In fact I’d go as far as to say that the characters felt all too mechanical to my reader eyes.

This book has put me in a slump of sorts and I am having trouble sticking to a book.

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nalini mittal

Will make you shiver, laugh and ache and yet leave you hopeful

Reviewed in India on 30 October 2017

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I picked up a fiction novel after almost 2 years looking for a book that would immerse me in an unfamiliar culture. I literally searched for most famous authors from around the world and when I read the sample of this book, I knew this was it. I hadn't a clue what I had gotten myself into and before I knew it I was hooked.

At times I even found myself attached to a cause I had no exposure to until a week ago purely because the story is told to simply that it makes you fear of tragedy that could happen to anyone in the middle of ordinary circumstances.

It also shines light on a few topics that take a necessary diss at Western media and it's domination on reporting issues that are selectively picked and portrayed in a specific tone for it's "presumably" western audience. Ofcourse it is evident in the way western media focuses on issues close to home and dismisses the seriousness of others, trivialising them as recurring tragedies of less little global significance. Fortunately I found this book at a time when I myself was in the middle of deciding what it is that must be done about this bias in global media dominated by UK and USA.

But the book itself is a wonderful read, painful but wonderful. I would recommend it to anyone looking for fiction with "emotional truth" as the author puts it, if I am not wrong in the quotation.

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Rajni Rethesh

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Reviewed in India on 3 February 2018

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War cripples humanity; and the main victims of any war are women and kids. Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun reiterates it again. I had a disturbing time post reading Half of a Yellow Sun. The story makes you question the sustainability of morality and empathy in a war situation. The social norms are the facade we humans live with. The moment it is peeled off, we become the worst examples of cruelty and brutality.

The story of Half of a Yellow Sun is set in the backdrop of Nigerian Civil War that took place between 1967 to 1970. Nigerian Civil War broke out due to political and ethnic struggles, partly caused by the numerous attempts of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria to secede and form the Republic of Biafra. In the book, the effect of the war is shown through the dynamic relationships of five people’s lives including twin daughters of an influential businessman, a professor, a British citizen, and a houseboy.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie narrates the story through three main characters, i.e., one of the twins, the house boy, and the British fellow. The lives of these three characters are swept up in the turbulence of a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.

With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has woven together a story about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race, and the ways in which love can complicate them all. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promises and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had.

The writer has portrayed the havoc wrecked by the war so blatantly that it haunts you for few days. It will leave a thought in your mind as to what would you do in such a situation and on second thought, you would shudder and be grateful to God for keeping you in safer conditions. Some scenes in the book reminded me of the situation in India after the partition. The bloodshed, the gory violence, the desperateness that people faced during that period.

After reading two of the author's books, I can vouch that Chimamanda is an extraordinary story teller with a brilliant insight and acumen.

The book was also adapted into a movie in 2013

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Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 November 2019

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I loved this book, it's now firmly in my top 10 of all time. It's beautiful and visceral and funny and devastating. Adichie is seriously talented, it feels as if every word is just... perfectly chosen. I loved all the characters (especially Ugwu) and the way they all develop realistically over the course of the book. I've never been to Nigeria, but the setting and characters felt closer and more real to me than any book I've read set in wartime Europe, which is really impressive (to me as a European). It's also a perfect example of historical fiction - you come away with a nuanced understanding of a time and place you'll never experience in real life.

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Caitlin Cockcroft

Captivating, harrowing, real

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2018

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This collection of intertwined experiences is a poignant display of the realities of war from many sides. It captures the imagination, questions everything from gender to ethnicity to colonialism and stares courageously and fearlessly in the face of the West. I love the staunch, relentless counter to the western influence in Africa on every page, in every quote or thought or character's presence. I feel incredibly privileged and humbled to have been able to read this.

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