Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie takes a fascinating chapter of African history--the short-lived and bloody nation of Biafra, formed by the Igbo people in 1967--as the backdrop for her lush and gripping novel. Ugwu, a teenage conscript in the Biafran army, and the beautiful twin sisters Olanna and Kainene are the three protagonists of the book, and their lives alternate between moments of brutal chaos and rich romance.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Peoples + Cultures, Politics, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, Love + Relationships + Sex, Literary
- Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Pages: 416
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: September 12, 2006
- Date Published: September 12, 2006
- Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie