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Half of a Yellow Sun

ISBN: 9781400044160

出版社: Alfred A. Knopf

出版年: 2006-9-12

页数: 448

定价: USD 29.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介


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.

??????????? With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.???????????

???????????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.

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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