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Description

A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria... read more

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  • “...The world has to know the truth of what is happening, because they simply cannot remain silent while we die...”
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First Sentence

Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not return greetings, and had too much hair.

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  1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Author)
 

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