Off The Bookshelf UK - Books Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun New & Used Half of a Yellow Sun

Search Books - select a category

Buy Half of a Yellow Sun online at Discounted New and Used prices. Delivered to your door with Off-The-Bookshelf.

Half of a Yellow Sun
by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

List Price: £7.99

Off The Bookshelf's Price: £4.28

You Save: £3.71 (46%)
Prices subject to change.

Used Price: £1.34
Collectible Price: £5.00
Third Party New Price: £2.75

Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780007200283
ISBN: 0007200285
Label: HarperPerennial
Manufacturer: HarperPerennial
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: January 15, 2007
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Studio: HarperPerennial
Sales Rank: 224

Related Items:

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Disappointing
It's not the sort of book I'd normally pick up - prize winning, political etc - but I was approached it with excitement after hearing good reviews from people I know.

Although the story seemed promising, neither the characters or themes interested me and the only thing that kept me going was the fact I had to read it. I found the skipping back and forth through time confusing, and was a bit baffled by the numerous characters who melted into one another at points.

It caused a bit of a stir at the book group I run due to its subject and some people loved it, but sadly i did not.

Rating:

- A beautifully written novel taking us where no amount of reportage or photojournalism ever truly can
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a deeply human novel about the 1967 Nigeria-Biafra war, a war that some have accused the world of turning away from, in a book that she says she always knew she would write. Within the novel a character is actually writing a book entitled `The World Was Silent When We Died'. Indeed, as a reasonably politically aware young student at the time, I remember, along with millions of others, turning my attention towards Vietnam and, by default, away from what seemed a complex internecine African struggle.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie does not lecture us, despite having lost both her grandfathers and other family members to the war. Instead, she creates a wonderful group of characters whom we come to care ... Read More:

Rating:

- Page after page, simply wonderful
In Nigeria, devastated by civil war in the 1960s, we see the birth of the state of Biafra and relearn quite a bit of history. It is through the eyes of three different characters, whose personal tales intertwine, that history blends with their difficult paths:

Ugwu, a houseboy for eccentric university lecturer Odenigbo. Olanna, whose parents raise her and twin sister Kainene in the most privileged of backgrounds in Lagos; she leaves everything behind to follow Odenigbo as they are very much in love. Richard, a timid British national charmed by the Igbo culture and enthralled by Kainene, whose personality is an enigma for everyone. Obviously many other characters rotate all around and as we become acquainted with each of them, their ... Read More:

Rating:

- Absorbing
I found this a riveting read, with convincing characters and very informative about the Biafran/Nigerian war. I shall definitely be reading her first novel now.

Rating:

- instructive but too one-sided
I found the book interesting in so far as I didn't know anything about the situation in Nigeria at the time the story is set in- I was two when the events unfolded- but I do remember growing up at a time when adults often told you to eat up and be grateful because you were not a Biafran child. Not that I needed any such encouragement.So being a total ignoramus about Africa I did manage to get an idea of what it must have been like. I read different reviews and sometimes agree and sometimes not. I do agree when readers say that they don't really know that much more after finishing the book.The context is not clear for someone with no previous knowlegde of the war. At the same time it might be unreasonable to expect the writer to furnish all the historical ... Read More:

Books : Half of a Yellow Sun