outofrange reviewed Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World …
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4 stars
So many war stories become about the horrors of war, or even wallow in them. This story treats the Biafran war the opposite way, focusing only on its characters. Each have their own experiences of those horrors in the context of their lives and backgrounds. This way the war is woven into lives that we know, in which it is only one of many forces at work.