Registre: 1010
Autor: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Editorial: Harper Perennial
Idioma: Anglès
Snopsis:
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BESTWinner of the Orange
Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written
literary masterpieceUgwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a
university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of
privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And
Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister.
As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled
apart in ways they had never imagined.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece,
winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider
sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race - and
about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
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