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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun

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Harriett Gilbert talks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about lives upturned by the Biafran War in Nigeria.

In this month's World Book Club Harriett Gilbert will be at London鈥檚 South Bank Arts Centre talking to internationally acclaimed writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her bestselling novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Winner of the UK Orange Prize for fiction in 2007 Half of a Yellow Sun charts the stories of three intersecting lives turned upside down by the Biafran war in the late 1960s.

Village boy Ugwu comes to work for a charismatic professor. The professor鈥檚 glamorous girlfriend Olanna forgoes her life of luxury to live with him and Englishman Richard is in thrall to Olanna鈥檚 enigmatic twin sister. Meanwhile the shadow of this most horrific of civil wars, whose repercussions are still felt in Nigeria today, looms ever larger.

(Photo: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
(Credit: Jeff Overs/大象传媒)

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