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Have you read Half of a Yellow Sun?

Half of a Yellow Sun is set in Nigeria during the 1967-1970 Civil War between Nigeria and the newly seceded Biafra. The story alternates between events that take place during the early 1960s—when, like the tell-tale pre-tantrum wobble of a toddler’s jaw, the political turmoil sets the stage for the war—and then during late 1960s, when all the horrors of a civil battle are in full swing. The effect of the war is shown through the dynamic interactions among the lives of five people—Odenigbo, an off-the-wall intellectual, Olanna, his beautiful girlfriend, Ugwu, his 13 year-old house boy, Kainene, Olanna’s sardonic twin and Richard, a British writer and Kainene’s lover.

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