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 ...
'A landmark novel. Adichie brings to history a lucid intelligence and compassion, and a heartfelt plea for memory' Guardian
'A new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers' Chinua Achebe
'I wasted the last fifty pages, reading them far too greedily and fast, because I couldn't bear to let go ... magnificent' Margaret Forster