Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

£60

Illustrated by Unyime Edet

The first illustrated edition of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s phenomenal Half of a Yellow Sun is published by The Folio Society, with a series of stunning watercolours by artist Unyime Edet.

£60

Book Details

Presentation Box & BindingBound in printed and blocked duotone cloth
Blocked slipcase

Dimensions9½ inches x 6¼ inches

FontSet in Freight Text with P22 Typewriter as display

Pages528 pages

AuthorChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Illustrated byUnyime Edet

IllustrationFrontispiece and 6 full-page colour illustrations

Publication Date17/05/2022

Editor's Notes

Between 1967 and 1970, Nigeria was plunged into a bloody Civil War that claimed the lives of more than a million people, as the government fought The Republic of Biafra; a successionist state fighting for independence. Against this turbulent backdrop, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves the stories of five disparate characters – twins Olanna and Kainene, university professor Odenigbo, his houseboy Ugwu, and English ex-pat Richard – drawn together then pushed to the limits of human endurance as their country unravels. Beautifully written, dramatic and affecting, this sweeping novel about love, race, class and colonialism brings to the fore contemporary Nigerian literature and an overlooked history. With seven emotive watercolours and an evocative binding design by artist Unyime Edet, this edition of Adichie’s multi-award-winning novel celebrates its literary standing and the powerful impact it has on its readers.

About the Illustrator

Unyime Edet

Unyime Edet is an illustrator from Akwa Ibom State in southern Nigeria. He studied painting at the University of Uyo and taught art at the Federal University of Lafia; he is now a full-time painter based in Abuja. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at the Thought Pyramid Art Centre in Lagos.

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About the Author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian-born novelist. Adichie has lived in the United States for much of her adult life, and has been awarded master’s degrees in creative writing from Johns Hopkins and African studies from Yale; she was also a MacArthur Fellow and held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton universities. Adichie was inspired to write as a child after reading the work of Chinua Achebe; her novels and stories have often examined questions of Nigerian identity, marriage and gender roles, and post-colonial politics. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book; Half of a Yellow Sun, her second, was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction and was later voted the ‘Winner of Winners’ of this prize in its 25-year history. Americanah, her third novel, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Adichie’s TEDx talk, ‘We should all be feminists’, has been viewed more than seven million times and helped make her one of the most prominent feminist commentators of our times.

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