Hi All,
I'm not sure if we're meeting in May or June but the read for this month is Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanad Ngozi Adichie.
This highly anticipated 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. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character.As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Links:
- http://www.halfofayellowsun.com/ - website dedicated to the book
-http://www.harperperennial.co.uk/books.aspx?id=32636 - read chapter one online
-http://preview.tinyurl.com/2jvtlm Amazon reviews
-http://www.readinggroups.co.uk/guides/Recommended.aspx?id=32636&articleid=7329 - reading group guide
K
