Using both history and fantasy, she whisks you away into the world of Orïsha, full of magic and family betrayals. Ore OgunbiyiĬhildren of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiĪdeyemi has described her novel as “an allegory for the modern black experience, for people who aren’t black to understand what it’s like to walk in our shoes”. Adichie offers an account of one of Nigeria’s most deadly and divisive periods with writing that is far more accessible and delicate than any history book. Against this historical backdrop, the novel explores the lives of a professor, his girlfriend, their houseboy and the various other people they encounter. Though I went to school in Nigeria for more than five years, Half of a Yellow Sun was my first real encounter with the devastating Biafran civil war of the late 1960s that remains a sore memory for many Nigerians. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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