Half of a Yellow Sun – Cannonball Read 17

3/4 of a Good Book (Belated Bingo – Yellow)

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

November 15, 2020 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

This book was a journey for me, a loooong road from start to finish. A friend sent it to me in the mail, having not finished it, but thinking I would like to read it. Her disclaimer was that she was reading it while pregnant and due to something that happened to a pregnant woman wasn’t able to read on. I mean, a book about a civil war is going to be a tough read for anyone, but certainly for an expectant mother possibly a […]

The truth has become an insult.

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie

February 6, 2019 by vel veeter 1 Comment

Chimamanda Adichie reminds me a lot of Arundhati Roy in the sense that while she’s obviously and very clearly a talented novelist, she’s also a political activist and political writer. This creates a tension in me as a fan, because I worry this might lead her to stop writing fiction, but also realize that that’s selfish, if her activism is more meaningful and more efficacious in terms of bringing help to those who need it. So for that reason, I think I have been putting […]

Powerful Novel of War and Hope

May 20, 2017 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Half of a Yellow Sun is a story of independence, war, betrayal and loss both for a nation and for a particular group of people swept up in it all. Set in the 1960s, it examines life in Nigeria on the eve of war and then during the chaos and violence of the Biafran war. While providing concise historical background on Nigeria and Biafra, Adichie, through her characters, shows how class division, race, culture, and gender fed into and were in turn influenced by conflict. […]

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