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  • Taschenbuch: 448 Seiten
  • Verlag: Harpercollins (15. Januar 2007)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0007200285
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007200283
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,2 x 3,4 cm
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Starred Review. When the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria seceded in 1967 to form the independent nation of Biafra, a bloody, crippling three-year civil war followed. That period in African history is captured with haunting intimacy in this artful page-turner from Nigerian novelist Adichie (Purple Hibiscus). Adichie tells her profoundly gripping story primarily through the eyes and lives of Ugwu, a 13-year-old peasant houseboy who survives conscription into the raggedy Biafran army, and twin sisters Olanna and Kainene, who are from a wealthy and well-connected family. Tumultuous politics power the plot, and several sections are harrowing, particularly passages depicting the savage butchering of Olanna and Kainene's relatives. But this dramatic, intelligent epic has its lush and sultry side as well: rebellious Olanna is the mistress of Odenigbo, a university professor brimming with anticolonial zeal; business-minded Kainene takes as her lover fair-haired, blue-eyed Richard, a British expatriate come to Nigeria to write a book about Igbo-Ukwu art—and whose relationship with Kainene nearly ruptures when he spends one drunken night with Olanna. This is a transcendent novel of many descriptive triumphs, most notably its depiction of the impact of war's brutalities on peasants and intellectuals alike. It's a searing history lesson in fictional form, intensely evocative and immensely absorbing. (Sept. 15)
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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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5.0 von 5 Sternen Memories which linger on , 10. Februar 2008
Blue Hibiscus was Chimamandas 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.
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5.0 von 5 Sternen This novel is a remarkable book., 18. September 2007
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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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4.0 von 5 Sternen The Ties That Bind . . . in Peace and War, 7. Mai 2007

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Strip away the thin veneer of civilization, and history teaches that you can quickly fall into savagery. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie disagrees with that conclusion. She sees elemental nobility in people that overcomes for most even the most trying conditions. As a result, Half of a Yellow Sun is a very hopeful work, despite recounting the horrors of the Biafran attempt to separate from Nigeria in 1967-70. She also realizes that even the best people will slip up . . . and deserve forgiveness when they do if they repent.

However, betray someone at a personal level . . . and that's much harder to take than mere life-threatening and degrading challenges. The contrast between surviving external conditions and personal betrayal is deftly and powerfully made in this kaleidoscope of how world politics, colonial policies, religious differences, tribal influences, geographical prejudices, racism, economic class consciousness, business activities, family connections, friendships, sexual desire, obligations, and personal favors interplay.

At the center of the story is one household at rural Nsukka University comprised of the socialist-leaning professor Odenigbo, his beautiful mistress Olanna, daughter of Chief Ozobia, and their houseboy, Ugwu. The plot also heavily involves Olanna's fraternal twin sister, Kainene, who runs the family business interests and her lover, the ineffectual English writer, Richard Churchill. Intellectuals from Odenigbo's university circles also stand-in as surrogates for various attitudes in society. In fact, each character is clearly symbolic of one part of the story or the other. Follow their fates, and you get a good sense of the author's ideas of what happened to the overall social fabric.

Two things make this book special: First, Ms. Adichie has captured the psychologies of different times in Nigeria and Biafra in a subtle and interesting way. Her book is very much more about the psychological landscape than about the physical one. No doubt she was helped by her interviews with her relatives and others still living who experienced those days. Second, she takes the time to endow ordinary life with extraordinary meaning. It's a beautiful gift.

The book has two weaknesses from my perspective: Ms. Adichie curiously decides to turn some of the personal events into a mystery so that for some pages you see characters estranged from one another . . . but without knowing the reason. I felt like this approach simply served to make the story harder to understand . . . as though the reader didn't really qualify to know family matters. The other weakness is that many characters are drawn very superficially while Ms. Adichie shows enormous skill in portraying great depths concerning Olanna, Ugwu, and Odenigbo.

For those of us who don't live in Africa, it's always exciting to see events there from the perspective of Africans . . . rather than American journalists and visiting politicians. I felt deeply rewarded by reading this fine book.
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