The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. 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. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist.
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.THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'WINNER OF WINNERS' A heartbreaking, exquisitely written masterpiece. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. 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.
THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'WINNER OF WINNERS' Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece 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.
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