Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Anchor Books. 2006. Softcover. Later printing. 543pp. Fine copy.
Half of a Yellow Sun won the Women's Prize for Fiction a year after its release. The plot and characters are loosely based on Adichie's observations of her father's stories about the Nigerian Civil War and the aftermath, and the family visits to her hometown of Abba, Anambra State, when she was thirteen.
