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In 2006, Chimamanda released a transcendent tale about war, loyalty, brutality, and Love in modern Africa. She perspicuously painted a searing portrait of the tragedy that took place in Biafra during the 1960s. The book, Half of a yellow sun is hauntingly evocative and impossible to forget.
This legendary book, published in 2006 by 4th estate in London, received critical acclaim and won the Women’s prize for Fiction in 2007. In 2013, it was adapted into a film of the same name; In 2019, it was ranked as the 10th best book since 2000 by the Guardian; In 2020 it was voted as the best book to have won the Women’s prize for fiction in its 25-year history; In 2022 it was included on the Big Jubilee Read; Fast-forward to now, August 2023, it as yet again come back to limelight as the book of the month for service95.
In an interview with Dua Lipa, Chimamanda talks about the novel and how it serves as a commentary to the class system in Nigeria. She delves into the topic, noting that in Nigeria, Ethnicity and religion are always talked about, leaving behind the issue of class. She also laid down her opinion, that class shapes the most of people’s lives.
Recent findings state that Half of the yellow sun is a book that loves attention and it will definitely rise to prominence again, come 2024.
