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Authors: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Robin Miles
ISBN-13: 9781449813833, ISBN-10: 1449813836
Format: MP3 Book
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Date Published: January 2010
Edition: Unabridged

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Author Biography: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria, where she attended medical school for two years at the University of Nigeria before coming to the United States. A 2003 O. Henry Prize winner, Adichie was shortlisted for the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the BBC Short Story Awards, and has appeared in various literary publications, including Zoetrope and the Iowa Review. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the Booker. She now divides her time between the U.S. and Nigeria.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Adichie's brilliant historical novel follows the fortunes of five characters living through the tumultuous 1960s—a time when the Biafran-Nigerian War raged in southern Africa. "It's a searing history lesson in fictional form, intensely evocative and immensely absorbing."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

The New York Times - Rob Nixon

Half of a Yellow Sun takes us inside ordinary lives laid waste by the all too ordinary unraveling of nation states. When an acquaintance of Olanna s turns up at a refugee camp, she notices that -- he was thinner and lankier than she remembered and looked as though he would break in two if he sat down abruptly. -- It s a measure of Adichie s mastery of small things -- and of the mess the world is in - that we see that man arrive, in country after country, again and again and again.

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