World Book Club - World Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 06/06/09
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Harriett Gilbert talks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about the novel Half of a Yellow Sun.
In this month's World Book Club Harriett Gilbert will be at London’s South Bank Arts Centre talking to internationally acclaimed writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her bestselling novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Winner of the UK Orange Prize for fiction in 2007 Half of a Yellow Sun charts the stories of three intersecting lives turned upside down by the Nigerian-Biafran war in the late 1960s. Village boy Ugwu comes to work for a charismatic professor. The professor’s glamorous girlfriend Olanna forgoes her life of luxury to live with him and Englishman Richard is in thrall to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister. Meanwhile the shadow of this most horrific of civil wars, whose repercussions are still felt in Nigeria today, looms ever larger.
Book list:
Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher: Fourth Estate
ISBN-13: 978-0007200276
- Broadcast on BBC World Service, 11:06PM Sun, 7 Jun 2009
- First broadcast BBC World Service, 8:06PM Sat, 6 Jun 2009
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- Duration 53 minutes
