About this title: From the award-winning author of "Purple Hibiscus" comes this masterly, haunting new novel, in which Adichie recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s.
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780007200283ISBN:0007200285
Description: Good. Cover has marks, bumping, edgewear, plastic is peeling at edges, sticker-Marks on edge-Bumped / dogeared pgs-Spine slant-Few marks on pgs-Edgewear. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400044160ISBN:1400044162
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400044160ISBN:1400044162
Description: Abby Weinbraub (Jacket Design) Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 435 pages, Third printing; Textblock is tight with no internal markings save for a light mark to the second, front-free endpaper; Fore-edge is rough-trimmed as published; Boards are a pastel-yellow with light-green spine and the title in gold; Unfaded pictorial dust-jacket with modest shelf and edge wear including light wear to top and tail of spine; We have placed the dust-jacket in a protective, clear, ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780007200283ISBN:0007200285
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780007789955ISBN:0007789955
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; Heartbreakaing, funny and exquisitely written story set in Nigeria in 1960s civil ware. A nice copy of a rare book. 433pp Post Typically 1-2 days UK, 2-7 days Worldwide. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780007200283ISBN:0007200285
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 448 pages. The sweeping novel from the author of 'purple hibiscus', shortlisted for the orange prize, and winner of the commonwealth writers award. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780007200283ISBN:0007200285
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Binding: AUDIO CD
Publisher: Recorded Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781436172097ISBN:1436172098
Description: Brand new. Librarian's Choice & Collector's Favorite. Brand new complete & unabridged audio book in an elegant case [I will ship immediately] read more
"Excellent -- substantial and compulsively readable. The characters were like people! I felt I knew them by the end. And I liked how people did bad things and they -- and the people around them -- had to struggle to come to terms with those things; they weren't just smote by some plot twist reserved for evildoers. It felt real.
I feel like I should say more, but don't have anything useful to say! It was just really impressive. An enormously kind book, despite the brutality it portrays."
"Adichie's novel begins in the early 1960s in newly independent Nigeria and follows a group of middle-class intellectuals through military coups, genocidal killings, and the secession of the doomed Igbo state, Biafra. I read this book right before I visited my fiance's family living in Igbo country in Nigeria. My future mother-in-law provided memories of war planes flying low enough overhead for her to see white pilots maneuvering the aircrafs. Although i will never be able to grasp this time in history, reading this book helped me to contribute to conversations around the table with my Nigerian in-laws and provided me with a base to ask questions."
"This is a recent winner of the Orange Prize, and deservedly so.
Adichie's wonderful narrative skills are showcased in this book, in which she relates the post-colonial horrors in Nigeria, which, like most African nations, is comprised of many different regions, which co-exist within artificial boundaries drawn by the European powers that formerly controlled the area. In drawing these boundaries, little concern was shown for the historic African boundaries or population groups. This book, like "The Poisonwood Bible" and "The Darling", made me so angry at the countries which colonized and converted African countries and then left them in total chaos, no longer able to function on their own, an entire continent fractured and dependent. Before colonization, Africa's tribal culture and systems worked for its peoples, but the white man destroyed these. Perhaps the Africans did not live the way Westerners want to live, but who are we to say that their way was wrong?
In 1967, Nigeria's Igbo people, living in the eastern part of the country, seceded and formed the independent republic of Biafra, thus touching off a three-year civil and ethnic war of such horror, barbarism, and mass starvation that can hardly be imagined. We see a people totally unprepared for the ravages of war: cut off from the rest of the world, babies dying, unable to get the barest necessities of life. The reader is struck by the naiveté of the Biafrans who believed that they could actually win against the Nigerian forces. One reviewer bluntly said that Biafra was another child of war, dead at birth. By early 1970, starved into submission, the Republic of Biafra ceased to exist.
Rather than a story of the war, Adichie tells a story through the minds and experiences of several well-developed characters as she explores the ethnic prejudices of the Africans and the religious differences of Muslims versus Christians in Nigeria as its social fabric was torn apart. The presence of oil in the eastern part of the country made it unthinkable that one ethnic group could control it. Oil and religious differences....hmmmm, does that sound familiar?
The stories of affluent twin sisters, their families, friends, and servants are seamlessly woven together as they struggle to survive the atrocities and brutality of war and starvation yet try to keep their dream alive. It is a story of war, love, ideals, compromise, loyalty, betrayal, and the culture of Africa.
This novel immediately captivated me and would not let me go....it was enlightening and educational, meticulously researched, powerful and complex. This young author avoids making the book a political screed by making it personal and human. Dramatic and haunting, this is a book you will not soon forget."
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