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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…

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Cresceu na Nigéria. A sua obra está traduzida para mais de 55 línguas. É autora dos romances A Cor do Hibisco, que ganhou o Commonwealth Writers Prize; Meio Sol Amarelo, distinguido com o “Winner of Winners” (o “Vencedor entre todos os Vencedores”) do Women's Prize for Fiction, e Americanah, galardoado com o National Book Critics Circle Award. São também de sua autoria a coletânea de contos A Coisa à Volta do Teu Pescoço e os ensaios Todos Devemos…

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