About the book: 2011 / Beautiful Olanna from a rich family was never bold like her twin sister Kainene, but it was Olanna who decided to leave a life full of comfort for the sake of love . Moving to a small town where her future husband, a professor at a local university, lived and worked, she hardly realized that she was irrevocably changing her destiny. The village boy Ugwu, who entered the service of the professor's house, also had no idea that from now on his life would change irreversibly and unpredictably. A shy young Englishman, Richard, who came to Nigeria to write a book, had no intention of staying forever. And the rebellious and spoiled Kainene hardly thought that she would shoulder responsibility for the lives of a huge number of people on her fragile shoulders. But the war that befell the country not only distorted the destinies of people, but also changed them themselves, bringing out what in ordinary life is hidden behind the veneer of civilization. Olanna, Ugwu, Richard and all the other heroes of the novel will have to go through the unimaginable horrors of war, face death more than once and find themselves again after terrible trials. Full of intense drama, the novel “Half of a Yellow Sun” tells the stories of several people - stories which are intertwined in the most amazing way. Readers called Adichie's novel "the African Kite Runner," and British critics awarded him the prestigious Orange Prize.».