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- Verlag: Fourth Estate; Auflage: Abridged edition (1. Januar 2007)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0007259352
- ISBN-13: 978-0007259359
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 14,2 x 12 x 2,4 cm
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- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 280.008 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Adichie surpasses her award-winning debut, Purple Hibiscus (2003), with a magnificent novel in which the dreams and tragedies of 1960s Nigeria are filtered through the minds and experiences of stupendously compelling characters. From page 1, an unbreakable bond is forged between the reader and Ugwu, a bright and kind young teen who has left his barebones village to serve as houseboy to Odenigbo, a robust and radical professor full of hope for newly independent Nigeria in spite of ingrained ethnic divides and colonialism's deleterious aftereffects. Ugwu becomes devoted to Odenigbo's beautiful and cultured lover, Olanna, as Odenigbo's treacherous mother plots against her, and her estranged twin sister, tough and sardonic Kainene, takes up with a gentle Englishman. The momentous psychological and ethical pressures Adichie engineers could support an engrossing novel in their own right, but her great subject is Nigeria's horrific civil war, specifically the fate of Biafra, the doomed breakaway Igbo state. "Half a yellow sun" is Biafra's emblem of hope, but the horrors and misery Adichie's characters endure transform the promising image of a rising sun into that of a sun setting grimly over a blood-soaked and starving land. Adichie has masterminded a commanding, sensitive epic about a vicious civil war that, for all its particular nightmares, parallels every war predicated by prejudice and stoked by outside powers hungry for oil and influence. Donna Seaman
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Praise for HB: 'Heartbreaking, funny, exquisitely written and, without doubt, a literary masterpiece and a classic.' Daily Mail 'Stunning. It has a ramshackle freedom and exuberant ambition.' Observer 'I look with awe and envy at this young woman from Africa who is recording the history of her country. She is fortunate -- and we, her readers, are even luckier.' Edmund White 'Vividly written, thrumming with life!a remarkable novel. In its compassionate intelligence as in its capacity for intimate portraiture, this novel is a worthy successor to such twentieth-century classics as Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and V.S. Naipaul's "A Bend in the River".' Joyce Carol Oates 'Rarely have I felt so there, in the middle of all that suffering. I wasted the last fifty pages, reading them far too greedily and fast, because I couldn't bear to let go!It is a magnificent second novel -- and can't fail to find the readership it deserves and demands.' Margaret Forster 'Here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers.' Chinua Achebe '[Deserves] a place alongside such works as Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy and Helen Dunmore's depiction of the Leningrad blockade, "The Siege".' Guardian 'A fresh examination of the ravages of war!a welcome addition to the corpus of African letters.' Times Literary Supplement
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'Blue Hibiscus' was Chimamanda's Debut, what followed has an even more intense quality. Anyone interested in African and expecially Nigerian present politics should read this book. Apart from that though it has a high entertaining quality. It even seems ironic to talk of 'entertaining' because the theme is absolutely serious, the contents often devastating as was the war 1967-1970 between Biafra and Nigeria. What I mean here is the way she deals with the topic. She weaves real events into the story and the stories of her protagonists. The Ibo massacres of 1966 in the North of Nigeria, among other things triggered the war. Her protagonists are from all walks of life, househelpers, village people, traders, intellectuals. Once you have started with the novel, you are captivated and want to read on. Anyone familiar with Nigeria will enjoy the novel even more, because you see everything so vividly before you.
The incredible bravery of the then Biafrans, their slogan 'Even the grass will rise to fight', the unfaltering confidence into their leader Colonel Ojukwu, all is true and did happen. Some of her characters are modelled after famous Nigerians of the time. The gap between intellectualism and soldier mentality, the antagonism between them and the helplessness of the intellectuals before their cruelty is shown exquisitely. It is an important book enriching the line of novels about the terrible Biafra war. The novel has an emotional intensitiy which Chimamanda says is one of her creeds, when writing. She certainly has achieved this.
The incredible bravery of the then Biafrans, their slogan 'Even the grass will rise to fight', the unfaltering confidence into their leader Colonel Ojukwu, all is true and did happen. Some of her characters are modelled after famous Nigerians of the time. The gap between intellectualism and soldier mentality, the antagonism between them and the helplessness of the intellectuals before their cruelty is shown exquisitely. It is an important book enriching the line of novels about the terrible Biafra war. The novel has an emotional intensitiy which Chimamanda says is one of her creeds, when writing. She certainly has achieved this.
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The blurb caught my attention and the fact that the story is on the Nigerian Civil war I was researching at the time made me go for this book. I am glad I did.
This story of the poor Ugwu leaving the life he had known in his home village to work as a house help in Enugu, where he got trapped in the world of educated and refined people whose worlds and past mirror the complexities of Nigeria before, during and after the civil. The writing makes understanding the civil war a lot easier, and gives an insight of the various ethnicities (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani), especially the major ones, whose squabbling and shortsightedness plunged the land into so much misery that it is yet to fully recover from.
The story spans four decades and tells a story of Nigeria that is exemplary. It comes with Disciples of Fortune, and Things Fall Apart as novels I enjoyed this summer. Stories that provide an insight into African life in this manner win my heart deeply.
This story of the poor Ugwu leaving the life he had known in his home village to work as a house help in Enugu, where he got trapped in the world of educated and refined people whose worlds and past mirror the complexities of Nigeria before, during and after the civil. The writing makes understanding the civil war a lot easier, and gives an insight of the various ethnicities (Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani), especially the major ones, whose squabbling and shortsightedness plunged the land into so much misery that it is yet to fully recover from.
The story spans four decades and tells a story of Nigeria that is exemplary. It comes with Disciples of Fortune, and Things Fall Apart as novels I enjoyed this summer. Stories that provide an insight into African life in this manner win my heart deeply.
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I bought Adichie's first novel 'Purple Hibiscus' in response to positive reviews. It struck a cord with me and I really enjoyed it, but Half of a Yellow Sun is something else. It will be one of the great classics of the 21st century. Set in Nigeria during the Biafran War it takes its characters through friendships, passionate loving relationships, small triumphs, famine and despair. It never loses sight of their humanity and its characters, from the beautiful and privileged Olanna, her sexy university lecturer friend and lover, Odenigbu to Ugwu their beguiling houseboy are superbly drawn. Love hate sibling rivalry is poignantly realised in a way that many sisters will identify with. This is a wonderful book. And deserves to be widely read. It may be about a group of individuals at a particular and terrifying point in their history but it is about everyone at anytime, their hopes their fears and their tragedies. Above all it celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. Also read Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates.
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Strip away the thin veneer of civilization, and history teaches that you can quickly fall into savagery. Lesen Sie weiter...
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