Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

However, he is found and reunited with Odenigbo, Olanna, Richard, Kainene, and Baby.

While in the Biafran army, he rapes a bar girl against his will, an act that haunts him forever. Ugwu gets conscripted into the Biafran army, and after he champions the killing of the enemy, he gets nicknamed target destroyer. They end up in Umuahia, where Ugwu taught children alongside Olanna. Ugwu meets Olanna, Odenigbo’s girlfriend, and though his relationship with her is initially rocky, they become friends and form a strong bond.Īfter war gets declared on Biafra, he leaves Nnsuka with Odenigbo. He witnesses Odenigbo sleeping with Amala but does nothing to stop them. While working as a houseboy, he meets Mama, Odenigbo’s mother. Ugwu is the main character in the story of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun.’ His story begins in the village and then progresses further as he moves to Nnsuka to work for Odenigbo as a house boy.

This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.Using the third-person perspective, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie made sure to make the story of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ follow the lives of its characters this tactic made it easy to understand every aspect of the story from the war itself to the people surviving the war. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'WINNER OF WINNERS' Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood.

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie