Half yellow sun

With the elegance and talent to which she has accustomed us, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie intertwines a decisive moment in modern African history with the lives of five unforgettable characters. The brief life of Biafra frames the growth of Ugwu, a humble thirteen-year-old servant for whom the world will unfold through the hand of his master, Odenigbo, who, in the privacy of his home, plans a revolution. This young university professor has a passionate relationship with the beautiful Olanna, whose twin sister, Kainene, is the object of the desperate love of Richard, a young Englishman grappling with his identity as a white man in Africa. All of them will be forced to make definitive decisions about love and responsibility, past and present, nation and family, loyalty and betrayal. All of them will witness the collapse of reality as they knew it due to a war that will irremediably transform everything.