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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 1400095204
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. When the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria seceded
in 1967 to form the independent nation of Biafra, a bloody, crippling
three-year civil war followed. That period in African history is
captured with haunting intimacy in this artful page-turner from Nigerian
novelist Adichie (Purple Hibiscus). Adichie tells her profoundly
gripping story primarily through the eyes and lives of Ugwu, a
13-year-old peasant houseboy who survives conscription into the raggedy
Biafran army, and twin sisters Olanna and Kainene, who are from a
wealthy and well-connected family. Tumultuous politics power the plot,
and several sections are harrowing, particularly passages depicting the
savage butchering of Olanna and Kainene's relatives. But this dramatic,
intelligent epic has its lush and sultry side as well: rebellious Olanna
is the mistress of Odenigbo, a university professor brimming with
anticolonial zeal; business-minded Kainene takes as her lover
fair-haired, blue-eyed Richard, a British expatriate come to Nigeria to
write a book about Igbo-Ukwu art—and whose relationship with Kainene
nearly ruptures when he spends one drunken night with Olanna. This is a
transcendent novel of many descriptive triumphs, most notably its
depiction of the impact of war's brutalities on peasants and
intellectuals alike. It's a searing history lesson in fictional form,
intensely evocative and immensely absorbing. (Sept. 15)
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