Half of a Yellow Sun (Orange Prize)

Half of a Yellow Sun (Orange Prize)

THE WOMEN&#39;S PRIZE FOR FICTION &#39;WINNER OF WINNERS&#39;<br /> <br /> Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece<br /> 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&#39;s enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined.<br /> <br /> Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie&#39;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.