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Half of a Yellow Sun

January 2020

  • Wrongfooting readers … the 2013 film of Half of a Yellow Sun.

    Reading group
    Half of a Yellow Sun ends abruptly - but at the right time

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ends her novel soon after the end of the Biafran war, though the trauma is far from over for her characters. With spoilers

April 2014

  • Anika Noni Rose

    Anika Noni Rose: 'I'd like to ride a damn dragon!'

    Anika Noni Rose, Dreamgirls star and Disney's first black princess, tells Hermione Hoby why she's ready to spread her wings beyond Hollywood
  • 'Heartfelt performances':  Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Half of a Yellow Sun.

    Surprise as Nigerian censors halt premiere of civil war film

    Half of a Yellow Sun starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, based on a novel, depicts 1967–1970 tribal conflict
  • Half of a Yellow Sun

    Half of a Yellow Sun review – 'Well-intentioned and heartfelt'

    This adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel, though often sluggish, is a valuable reminder of Britain's toxic post-imperial legacy, writes Peter Bradshaw

January 2014

  • The London-born stage, film and TV actor Chiwetel Ejiofor

    Chiwetel Ejiofor joins Hollywood elite as 12 Years a Slave tipped for Oscars

    After parallel successes on stage and screen, the Londoner is being lauded as one of the greatest actors of his generation

September 2013

  • Biyi Bandele (right) with Chiwetel Ejiofor on the set of Half of a Yellow Sun

    Biyi Bandele: 'And then we all got typhoid …'

    Playwright Biyi Bandele dealt with plenty of drama directing his debut film, Half of a Yellow Sun. But then he is used to life on the edge, he tells Paul MacInnes

October 2009

  • Book club
    Book club: week three

    John Mullan on readers' responses to Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Soldier in Biafran War, 1968

    Books blog
    Guardian book club: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    The Biafran war is an unlikely subject for a bestseller, but I was hooked by the quality of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's storytelling in Half of a Yellow Sun

  • Book club
    Guardian book club: week one

    John Mullan on Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

June 2007

  • Extract: Half of a Yellow Sun

    Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair. Ugwu's aunty said this in a low voice as they walked on the path. "But he is a good man," she added.

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Nigerian war epic sweeps to Orange prize victory

    In a near-unanimous decision, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's domestic epic of the Biafra war, Half of a Yellow Sun, has won this year's Orange Broadband prize for fiction.

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Books blog
    An Orange prize winner among prize winners

    The award for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun could not have gone to a better novel.

February 2007

  • War stories

    Mary Fitzgerald on Half of a Yellow Sun | The Good German | The Bullet Trick

August 2006

  • The Master and his houseboy

  • It's off to war she goes

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