Reader recommendation: Half of a Yellow Sun
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January 29, 2015
Half of a Yellow Sun, a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is set during the breakaway attempt to establish a country, Biafra, apart from Nigeria, in
the late 1960s. The author sets the scene and describes events from the points of view of a spectrum of participants. I really enjoyed this book.