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Monthly Book Giveaway - Fiction and Literature Selection
This month's free book giveaway is a copy of: Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
| Half a Yellow Sun is the 2007 winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (page 36 in Read, Remember, Recommend: A Reading Journal for Book Lovers).
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"We do not usually associate wisdom with beginners, but here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie knows what is at stake, and what to do about it. She is fearless, or she would not have taken on the intimidating horror of Nigeria's civil war. Adichie came almost fully made."
— Chinua Achebe, author,Things Fall Apart |
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| About the author: |
 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is from Abba, in Anambra State, but grew up in the university town of Nsukka where she attended primary and secondary schools and briefly studied Medicine and Pharmacy. She then moved to the United States to attend college, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State with a major in Communication and a minor in Political Science. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale. 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 and long-listed for the Booker Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Prospect, and The Iowa Review among other literary journals, and she received an O. Henry Prize in 2003. She was a 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, where she taught Introductory Fiction. She divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
Visit the author's website: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
View last month's free book giveaway |
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