Half of a Yellow Sun: The Women’s Prize for Fiction’s ‘Winner of Winners’ - Softcover

Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008205248 ISBN 13: 9780008205249

Verlag: Fourth Estate, 2016

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half a yellow sun editado por Harper & row usa

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'Vividly written, thrumming with life...a remarkable novel. In its compassionate intelligence as in its capacity for intimate portraiture, this novel is a worthy successor to such twentieth-century classics as Chinua Achebe's “Things Fall Apart” and V. S. Naipaul's “A Bend in the River”.' Joyce Carol Oates

'Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers.’ Chinua Achebe

'I look with awe and envy at this young woman from Africa who is recording the history of her country. She is fortunate – and we, her readers, are even luckier.' Edmund White

'Absolutely awesome. One of the best books I've ever read.' Judy Finnigan

'[Deserves] a place alongside such works as Pat Barker's “Regeneration” trilogy and Helen Dunmore's depiction of the Leningrad blockade, “The Siege”.' Guardian

‘Heartbreaking, funny, exquisitely written and, without doubt, a literary masterpiece and a classic’
Daily Mail

‘Stunning. This novel is an immense achievement’ Observer

‘A landmark novel. Adichie brings to history a lucid intelligence and compassion, and a heartfelt plea for memory’ Guardian

‘I wasted the last fifty pages, reading them far too greedily and fast, because I couldn’t bear to let go ... magnificent’ Margaret Forster

Reseña del editor:

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST

Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece

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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• Verlag: Fourth Estate
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0008205248
• ISBN 13: 9780008205249
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448