Half of a Yellow Sun-半轮黄日

作者：Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi

书名：Half of a Yellow Sun《半轮黄日》

中文背景：Half of a Yellow Sun《半轮黄日》是尼日利亚作家 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie的小说。小说发生在尼日利亚内战之前和期间（1967-70）。战争的影响体现在五个人生活的动态关系中，其中包括一位有影响力的商人的双胞胎女儿、一位教授、一位英国公民和一名男仆。在比亚弗拉宣布脱离国家后，主要人物的生活发生了巨大的变化。

英文简介：Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.

A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed. 

Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love can complicate them all. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had.