[Yale-readings] Reminder: Chimamanda Adichie Tomorrow

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
>Half of a Yellow Sun
>
>Tuesday, April 17 @ 5.30PM
>
>
>Labyrinth Books and Yale’s Council on African Studies invite you to a 
>reading, discussion, and reception with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 
>celebrating the publication of her new novel.
>
>A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington 
>Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a 
>Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s 
>impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in 
>the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.
>
>Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a 
>remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, 
>about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love 
>can complicate them all. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the 
>devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us 
>one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of 
>modern Africa that we have ever had.
>
>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria. Her first novel, Purple 
>Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright 
>Legacy Award. It was also short-listed for the Orange Prize and the John 
>Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta and The 
>Iowa Review among other literary journals, and she received an O. Henry 
>Prize in 2003.
>
>
>To r.s.v.p. or for more information please call 203 787 2848
>This event is free and open to the public
>
>
>Labyrinth Books
>290 York Street
>at the heart of Yale
right next to Toad’s Place
>or visit <http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/>www.labyrinthbooks.com
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