The book takes its title from the powerful image of the rising sun on the Biafran flag.Ĭreating a film adaptation of such a hefty, complex novel is an ambitious task. Both her grandfathers died as Biafran refugees, and her novel is an imagining of the event through intimate relationships, multiple narratives and multiple times: homage to a national memory. And it is a war that began in 1967, precisely a decade before Adichie was born. It is a war, like any war, that is complicated and violent and flinchingly human. It is a war that begins with the southern Igbo secession from Nigeria as the Republic of Biafra and the subsequent violent action of the Nigerian government against this new state. It is a war that results from tensions between Igbo and Hausa, north and south, from lingering colonial structures. It engages with a pivotal event in Nigerian history, the kind of event that creates ‘before’ and ‘after’ stories: the civil war, the Biafran War. Clocking in at over 500 pages, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s second novel Half of a Yellow Sun (published in 2006) is a weighty work both in form and subject.
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