Half of a Yellow Sun - BookWyrm.it

Brossura

lingua English

Pubblicato il 27 Luglio 2007 da Harper Perennial.

ISBN:: 978-0-00-720028-3

(1 recensione)

In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, goes to work for Odenigbo, a radical university professor. Soon they are joined by Olanna, a young woman who has abandoned a life of privilege to live with her charismatic lover. Into their world comes Richard, an English writer, who has fallen for Olanna’s sharp-tongued sister Kainene. But when the shocking horror of civil war engulfs the nation, their loves and loyalties are severely tested, while their lives pull apart and collide once again in ways none of them could have imagined --back cover

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KnitAFett ha recensito Half of a Yellow Sun di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hard-hitting, but well written.

4 stelle

I admittedly did not know anything about the Nigerian Civil War before reading this book. Tackle on the fact that I try not to read blurbs or anything about the books before starting them, this one took me entirely by surprise.

The first portion of the book reads more like a historical drama. There's family disputes, betrayals, affairs, all that soap opera goodness. Then the war breaks out and you see how much it messes everything up and how it changes the characters of the book as they try to navigate and survive the attacks.

Adichie pulls no punches when it comes to any portion of this book, especially the war portions. The descriptions of attacked areas can be quite gorey, so just be prepared for that. I feel like this is an important read and I'm definitely glad that I read it.

I will say that while I felt …

I admittedly did not know anything about the Nigerian Civil War before reading this book. Tackle on the fact that I try not to read blurbs or anything about the books before starting them, this one took me entirely by surprise.

The first portion of the book reads more like a historical drama. There's family disputes, betrayals, affairs, all that soap opera goodness. Then the war breaks out and you see how much it messes everything up and how it changes the characters of the book as they try to navigate and survive the attacks.

Adichie pulls no punches when it comes to any portion of this book, especially the war portions. The descriptions of attacked areas can be quite gorey, so just be prepared for that. I feel like this is an important read and I'm definitely glad that I read it.

I will say that while I felt warmed towards some of the characters in this book in the beginning, Adichie quickly pulls out their flaws and smacks you in the face with their realities. Every character is flawed, and every character does some really dumb crap that you want to smack them for, if you don't wind up despising them. War changes everything, rarely for the better, and that message is clearly sent through this book.

It did take me a while to get through because of how heavy it was, but I recommend it, especially if you're like me and have not read anything about the Nigerian Civil War yet.