Half of a Yellow Sun

ISBN: 9780007200283

出版社: Harper Perennial

出版年: 2007-5-1

页数: 448

定价: USD 17.75

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Book Description

亚马逊为您奉上2007年度亚马逊畅销书之一-------《黄色太阳的一半》

The sweeping novel from the author of 'Purple Hibiscus', shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and winner of the Commonwealth Writers Award. 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.

Book Dimension

length: (cm)19.4 　 width:(cm)12.8

作者简介

奇玛曼达·恩戈齐·阿迪奇埃　1977年出生于尼日利亚的阿巴，伊博族，父亲曾任尼日利亚大学副校长。19岁到美国，2001年获传播学和政治学学士学位，后又在约翰·霍普金斯大学获文学创作硕士学位，目前居住在康涅狄格州。被誉为尼日利亚最有前途的青年女作家。其短篇小说发表于加拿大、英国和美国等地的刊物，大多讲述尼日利亚移民在美国的经历，曾获英联邦广播协会奖和BBC短篇小说奖，其长篇小说《紫芙蓉》获2004年度英国奥兰治小说奖提名，《半轮黄日》获2007年奥兰治小说奖。《华盛顿邮报》称她为非洲文豪钦努阿·阿契贝在21世纪的传人。

阿迪奇埃将自己定位为一个以非洲为背景进行现实主义创作的作家，反映后殖民时代尼日利亚乃至非洲大陆的历史与现实问题。

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