A review by helenar
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I found this to be a difficult read emotionally and ended up reading it in small amounts interspersed with much gentler books. The author describes the realities of the Biafran war and the deep suffering of the main characters, who are by no means flawless, and those around them, left me reeling. I knew very little of the events in Nigeria at a time in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s just before I was born  and so I did some factual research but nowhere I looked came close to the way the author portrayed the very complicated nature of this war and the human or seemingly inhuman acts that took place and the affects and scars that they leave. 
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