{"product_id":"9780676978131","title":"Half of a Yellow Sun","description":"With her award-winning debut novel, \u003ci\u003ePurple Hibiscus\u003c\/i\u003e, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was  heralded by the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua  Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment  in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent  republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller,  Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary  tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university  professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full  of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher,  is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane  twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard,  forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through  a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly  evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this  time and place.\u003cbr\u003e Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, \u003ci\u003eHalf of a Yellow Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is  a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any  we have had before.","brand":"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Canada |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2007-09-04","offer_id":44151340794111,"sku":"9780676978131","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_87568321-a138-4561-97c4-f77bb2ea0495.jpg?v=1633931485","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780676978131","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}