Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by Fourth Estate, the novel tells the story of the Biafran War through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard.
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- Half of a Yellow Sun[1] by Chimamanda Ngozi.
If you want to sample probably a different style and culture, I would highly recommend this book. This is a 2006 novel by a prolific African writer and is set in the late 1960s Biafran times in Nigeria. There is a lot in it and is richly written.
[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18749.Half_of_a_Yellow_S...
- Highly recommend her work! I've read Americanah and loved it. My partner read Half of a Yellow Sun and also really enjoyed it.
- I would recommend most of the books I read this year:
* Born a Crime by Noah Trevor
* Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
* Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Alexievich, Svetlana
* Ex-Formation by Hara, Kenya (best book I read this year)
* A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson, Bill
* Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian (applying algorithm theory to daily life)
* Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Voss Chris (meh)
* Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Knapp Jake (meh)
* All the Light We Cannot See by Doerr Anthony (loved it)
* The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro Kazuo (loved it)
- I am not concerned … with offering any facile solution for so complex a problem. —T. S. Eliot
Miss Adebayo visited and said something about grief, something nice-sounding and facile: Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved. —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
“Joker” takes off from a facile premise and descends into incoherent political trolling as a result of scattershot plotting and antics—its director, Todd Phillips, appears not to see what he’s doing. —The New York Times
Unless you read a lot into definition 4 of Webster's, the app dictionary, or even the word 'shallow,' gives a result much more accurate to how I've seen the word actually used. With more than a century and a half since the dictionary was first published, seems like plenty of time for a shift in meaning to happen.
