He had never seen anything like the streets that appeared after they went past the university gates, streets so smooth and tarred that he itched to lay his cheek down on them. He was prepared to walk hours more in even hotter sun. They had been walking for a while now, since they got off the lorry at the motor park, and the afternoon sun burned the back of his neck. He did not disagree with his aunty, though, because he was too choked with expectation, too busy imagining his new life away from the village. You will even eat meat every day.' She stopped to spit the saliva left her mouth with a sucking sound and landed on the grass.Ugwu did not believe that anybody, not even this master he was going to live with, ate meat every day. 'And as long as you work well, you will eat well. Ugwu's aunty said this in a low voice as they walked on the path.

Leseprobe Master was a little crazy he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal Olanna, the professor's beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover's charm and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna's willful twin sister Kainene. Elle Informationen zum Autor Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Klappentext A haunting story of love and war from 'one of the world's great contemporary writers' (Barack Obama), the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s.

That is what great fiction doesit simultaneously devours and ennobles! and in its freely acknowledged invention comes to be truer than the facts upon which it is built. Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists. searching insight! compassion and an unexpected yet utterly appropriate touch of wit! Adichie has created an extraordinary book. A story whose characters live in a changing wartime atmosphere! doing their best to keep that atmosphere at bay. Zusatztext A gorgeous! pitiless account of love! violence and betrayal during the Biafran war.

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