The God of Small Things
Kainene and Olanna are twins, but nothing alike. The sibling rivalry is palpable. Olanna is beautiful and Kainene resents that everything seems to come easy for her sister. Kainene is slim and angular, and all business. Her sister, Kainene, has no such beauty, and is referred to as "the ugly sister".Olanna is one of three narrators in 'Half of a Yellow Sun'. She is an Igbo sociology teacher. She comes from a wealthy upper-class family and is well educated, which wasn't very common for women in 1960s Nigeria. Olanna lives with her boyfriend Odenigbo. She has a twin sister, Kainene, who has a very different personality to Olanna's. Olanna is a beautiful woman, unlike her ugly twin sister. Despite her mother's beliefs, Kainene, her twin sister, is a very different character to her
About This Guide
The questions, discussion topics, and suggestions for further reading that follow are intended to enhance your group's conversation about Half of a Yellow Sun, a richly imagined story of the disastrous war between Nigeria and Biafra, largely forgotten in the West, which won the 2007 Orange Prize in Britain and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
About This Book
Half of a Yellow Sun returns to a critical moment in the modern history of Nigeria, a time shortly after gaining their independence from Britain when, following a massacre of their people, the Igbo tribes of the southeast seceded and established The Republic of Biafra. Three years of civil war followed as Biafra was slowly strangled into submission by violence and famine. Over a million people died, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's two grandfathers.
With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the war. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for Odenigbo, a pan-Africanist university professor full of revolutionary zeal. His beautiful girlfriend
About This Guide
The questions, discussion topics, and suggestions for further reading that follow are intended to enhance your group's conversation about Half of a Yellow Sun, a richly imagined story of the disastrous war between Nigeria and Biafra, largely forgotten in the West, which won the 2007 Orange Prize in Britain and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
About This Book
Half of a Yellow Sun returns to a critical moment in the modern history of Nigeria, a time shortly after gaining their independence from Britain when, following a massacre of their people, the Igbo tribes of the southeast seceded and established The Republic of Biafra. Three years of civil war followed as Biafra was slowly strangled into submission by violence and famine. Over a million people died, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's two grandfathers.
With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the war. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for Odenigbo, a pan-Africanist university professor full of revolutionary zeal. His beautiful girlfriend