Half Of A Yellow Sun

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: 2007 Language: English Rating: 3.5/5 Blurb: In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university lecturer, Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live…

Purple Hibiscus

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: 2004 Language: English Rating: 4/5 Blurb: Fifteen-year-old Kambili lives in fear of her father, a charismatic yet violent Catholic patriarch who, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Escape and discovery of a new, liberated way of life come when…