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With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World 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.

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.
Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.
 
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Hardback Editions

May 2008 : Library Binding
Cover of ISBN: 1435289471Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 1-4352-8947-1 / 978-1-4352-8947-5
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September 2006 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0676978126Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 0-676-97812-6 / 978-0-676-97812-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Knopf Canada
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September 2006 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1400044162Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 1-4000-4416-2 / 978-1-4000-4416-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Knopf
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August 2006 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0007200277Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 0-00-720027-7 / 978-0-00-720027-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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Paperback Editions

September 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1400095204Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 1-4000-9520-4 / 978-1-4000-9520-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Anchor
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September 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0676978134Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 0-676-97813-4 / 978-0-676-97813-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage Canada
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January 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007200285Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 0-00-720028-5 / 978-0-00-720028-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperPerennial
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2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007789955Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 0-00-778995-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Harper Perennial, London
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October 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007225342Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 0-00-722534-2 / 978-0-00-722534-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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April 2007 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0007259352Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 0-00-725935-2 / 978-0-00-725935-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
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August 2008 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: 0007296517Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 0-00-729651-7 / 978-0-00-729651-4 (UK edition)
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April 2007 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: 000726299XTitle: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 0-00-726299-X / 978-0-00-726299-1 (UK edition)
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April 2007 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: 0007263007Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 0-00-726300-7 / 978-0-00-726300-4 (UK edition)
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