Half of a Yellow Sun
Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda
HarperCollins Publishers
In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect.
Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer. And Richard, a shy Englishman, is in thrall to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister.
Amongst the horror of Nigeria’s civil war, loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined.