Half of a Yellow Sun

The beautiful Olanna from a wealthy family was never as bold as her twin sister Kainene, but it was Olanna who decided to leave her comfortable life for love. Moving to a small town where her future husband, a professor... at the local university, lived and worked, she hardly realized that she was irrevocably changing her fate. The village boy Ugwu, who came to serve in the professor's house, also had no idea that from now on his life would change irreversibly and unpredictably. The shy young Englishman Richard, who came to Nigeria to write a book, did not intend to stay here forever. And the rebellious and spoiled Kainene hardly thought that she would take on her fragile shoulders the responsibility for the lives of a vast number of people. But the war that broke out in the country not only twisted the destinies of people, but also changed them, bringing forth what is usually hidden behind the gloss of civilization. Olanna, Ugwu, Richard, and all the other characters in the novel will have to endure unimaginable horrors of war, face death time and again, and find themselves again after terrible trials. The tension-filled novel "Half of a Yellow Sun" tells the stories of several people—stories that intertwined in the most remarkable way. Readers have called Adichie's novel the "African 'Gone with the Wind'", while British critics awarded it the prestigious Orange Prize.