Emily's Hampstead Heath Walking Book Club - Sept - Half of a Yellow Sun

Sun Sep 15 2024 at 11:30 am to 01:00 pm

Daunt Books Hampstead | London

Emily Rhodes
Publisher/HostEmily Rhodes
Emily's Hampstead Heath Walking Book Club - Sept - Half of a Yellow Sun
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We will walk and talk on Hampstead Heath discussing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's moving, sweeping novel about the Civil War in Nigeria.
About this Event

Adichie’s powerful, sweeping novel is set in 1960s Nigeria, during the Civil War that claimed the lives of over a million people. We follow three characters - Ugwu, a houseboy for a university professor; Olanna the professor’s lover; and Richard, a writer who falls for Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister - as they are drawn together, swept up in the violence, and pushed to the limits of human endurance. Half of a Yellow Sun is both highly affective, compulsive reading, and also raises challenging questions about morality, class, race and colonialism. A transcendent novel that is required reading for our times.

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N.B. Please ensure that you have read the book BEFORE coming on the walk - or it risks spoiling the event for other walkers. If you've don't quite have time to read the book, please consider instead joining the Monday evening Zoom, for which reading the book isn't a prerequisite.


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Daunt Books Hampstead, 51 South End Road, London, United Kingdom

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