Half of a Yellow Sun

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-03-13 Pages: 448 Language: English Publisher: Fourth Estate Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. this is a heartbreaking. exquisitely written literary masterpiece Now a major film starring Thandie Newton. Dominic Cooper. and Chiwetel Ejiofor. This novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s. at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. It has now been turned into a major film starring Thandie Newton. Dominic Cooper and Chiwetel Ejiofor. due for release in 2014. The three main characters in the novel