AUTHOR PROFILE · Nigeria
Nigerian novelist whose fiction includes Half of a Yellow Sun, set during the Nigerian Civil War.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories and essays.
Her novel Half of a Yellow Sun follows several lives drawn together and apart during the Nigerian Civil War of the late 1960s.
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Set before and during the Nigerian Civil War, three lives — a houseboy, a professor’s partner and an English writer — are bound together as a nation fractures.
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