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WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister.

As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's masterpiece, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is a novel about Africa in a wider sense: about the end of colonialism, ethnic allegiances, class and race - and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.

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Autor

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE cresceu na Nigéria. A sua obra está traduzida para mais de trinta línguas. É autora dos romances A Cor do Hibisco, Meio Sol Amarelo e Americanah; da coletânea de contos A Coisa À Volta do Teu Pescoço; e dos ensaio Todos Devemos ser Feministas e Querida Ijeawele. A sua obra foi já distinguida com diversos prémios, dos quais se destacam o National Book Critics Circle Award, o Orange Prize e o Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Em 2008, recebeu a prestigiada bolsa da MacArthur Foundation. A escritora divide o seu tempo entre a Nigéria e os Estados Unidos.

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