Half yellow sun

Half of A Yellow Sun

【Editor's Recommendation】
🟡 "We live like this because we don't remember that we are going to die." We can love each other so powerfully, we can kill so casually; in a war that is bound to strip everyone of their dignity, to what extent can we still maintain our humanity?
🟡 This epic novel explores the trauma of the Nigerian Civil War from a female perspective. It explores race and class, violence and slaughter, humanity and dignity, and ultimately, love and loyalty.
🟡 Adichie's representative novel, winner of the 2007 Orange Prize, the PEN America Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the 2015 Women's Prize for Fiction. 🟡 Worldwide acclaim, translated into 37 languages. 🟡 Hardcover with dust jacket, comfortable small format, comfortable reading experience. [Introduction]
In the early 1960s, when Nigeria first gained independence, undercurrents were surging beneath the surface of peace.
In the south, twin sisters Olana and Kenene, born into a wealthy family, are strikingly different. The younger sister, Olana, is beautiful, voluptuous, gentle, graceful, and elegant, like a delicate work of art in a shop window, a constant target of men's attention. The older sister, Kenene, is gaunt, aloof, and sharp-tongued, perpetually sullen and often sarcastic, yet confident and capable. Against her parents' wishes, Olana follows her "revolutionary lover," Odenigbo, to teach at a university. Kenene, managing the family business, becomes attracted to the British journalist Richard. These divergent life choices drive the sisters apart.
Coups and massacres struck suddenly, followed by civil war and famine. Everything that was once solid crumbled, and the people reached the crossroads of fate and history. They struggled in the vortex of war, lost in confusion, their love and loyalty were tested, and the future was uncertain. They said, "No one knows tomorrow."
【Celebrity reviews and recommendations】
This is a landmark novel, captured so precisely in its clear, unadorned prose… Literary reflection on the Biafran War is long and accomplished… Adichie is part of a new generation revisiting the history of their parents. She brings clear wisdom and compassion, as well as a heartfelt desire to remember.
—The Guardian
We don't usually associate wisdom with newcomers, but this new writer possesses the gifts of ancient storytellers. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie knows what's at stake and how to act. She's fearless, or she wouldn't have confronted the horrors of Nigeria's civil war with her writing. Adichie is practically a fully realized writer.
--Chinua Achebe When does loyalty come from love, and when from shared misfortune or a shared heritage? Half of a Yellow Sun explores this question through the entangled relationship of twin sisters. Like all Nigerians in postcolonial times, their lives are inextricably intertwined, and they and their country must choose between a volatile federalism and the fraught conditions of separatism.
—The New York Times
"Half a Yellow Sun" is both historical and contemporary, set 40 years ago in the forests of southeastern Nigeria, a commemoration of a forgotten war. Adichie's prose is vibrant. Like Nadine Gordimer, Adichie places her characters at crossroads where public and private loyalties may collide. "Half a Yellow Sun" possesses a deeply empathetic tone, never succumbing to the urge to simplify, whether heroic or demonic... It speaks to history not through abstract analogies but through vibrant detail and a mastery of the small, using history to speak to our war-torn times.
—The New York Times Book Review
I was completely absorbed… I've rarely felt so present, so immersed in all the suffering. I wasted the last fifty pages, reading too greedily and too quickly because I couldn't let go. There aren't many novels that look at war primarily from a woman's perspective, rather than a soldier's, which makes this one doubly valuable… This is Adichie's second excellent novel, and it won't fail to find the readership it deserves and needs.
—Margaret Forster Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel, vibrant and full of life. With its compassionate wit and intimate descriptive power, it stands as a worthy successor to such 20th-century classics as Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River.
—Joyce Carol Oates This is a monumental achievement…Half a Yellow Sun has a shaky freedom and a thriving ambition…No matter how dire the circumstances, Adichie is not one to point fingers. She leaves the judgment to us…She not only brings this nightmarish chapter in her country’s history to life but also charts the slow process by which love, if strong enough, triumphs.
——The Observer

2024-08-01

译林出版社

631

9787575302081