Danny Wallace knows how to put together a story, and also how to live it. “Friends Like These” comes from the common crisis of people approaching thirty, asking what they are doing, why they are doing it, and what has happened to their youth. He himself is about to turn thirty and his life has become a cliche. Recently married and living in a smart new area of town, he's swapped pints for lattes and had even contemplated buying coasters. Something wasn't right - he was feeling way too grown-up.
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.
The Shack tells the story of a man whose young daughter is murdered and who, four years later, receives a note, apparently from God, inviting him back to the shack where his daughter’s blood had been discovered. He encounters God in the form of a larger-than-life Afro-Caribbean woman.Mackenzie (Mack) Allen Philip’s, an ordinary American, though one with a painful past of his own, decides one weekend to take his kids on a camping trip in the mountains of Oregon. Nothing unusual – just a fun filled weekend of campfires, hiking, canoeing and enjoying the great outdoors. Until tragedy strikes in the most unexpected way. Mack’s two older kids are out canoeing when they lose control and the canoe flips over.
The shack is a metaphor for “the house inside a human being”, he said, “the place of a soul that gets damaged and twisted by what happens to you”. It is the inner dark place in which people store their hurt, their lies, their addictions and their secrets from the outside world.
William P Young’s The Shack has become a publishing phenomenon in America, and the book is now into its 14th print-run.