Half of a Yellow Sun: Author of the bestselling Purple Hibiscus By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A historical novel set in 1960s Nigeria during the Biafran War, following Ugwu, a boy from a poor village who becomes a houseboy for a university professor, Olanna, a young woman who leaves her privileged life to be with her lover, and Richard, an Englishman who becomes entangled in their lives as the conflict tests loyalties and loves.