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This is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece from the author of AMERICANAH
In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university lecturer. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. The third is Richard, a shy Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister. When the shocking horror of the war engulfs them, their loyalties are severely tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways that none of them imagined …
Giirl
2024-10-06
Love it very eye opening. The reader captured everything so well.
Bealin
2023-04-25
Wow! What a book! Such a vivid presentation of that war! Excellent characters, captivating, deeply moving and real. I couldn't put it down. And it's heartbreaking.
Shahla
2021-02-08
Boken ger en fantastisk bild av ett folk i krig i ett afrikanskt land på väg att hitta sig själv. Mycket rörande och poetisk.
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