February Meeting

The February meeting of the Book Circle & Pudding Club will be on Wednesday 4th February

Half of a Yellow Sun

Half a Yellow Sun is based on the Nigeria-Biafra War that happened in Nigeria from 1967-70. Adichie's writing is an intact narrative and description of the horrors that surrounded those years in Nigeria.

Half of a Yellow Sun follows the lives of five very different characters as they are swept up in rapidly−escalating violent political turmoil. Ugwu is a poor villager‚ employed as a houseboy for the university lecturer Odenigbo. Olanna is a young beautiful middle−class woman‚ who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. Richard is a shy English writer who falls in love with the remote and enigmatic Kainene.

These characters are propelled into violent events that will pull them apart and bring them together in the most unexpected ways‚ testing their ideals and stretching their loyalties to breaking point.

This book will not hide grief or pain, it will not soothe over the bad, and only emphasize the good. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.

January Meeting

The January meeting of the Book Circle & Pudding Club will be on Wednesday 7th January