WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BESTWinner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007 this is a heartbreaking exquisitely written literary masterpiece Ugwu a boy from a poor village works as a houseboy for a university professor Olanna a young woman has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover the professor & Richard a shy English writer is in thrall to Olanna’s enigmatic twin sister As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them they are thrown together & pulled apart in ways they had never imagined Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction is a novel about Africa in a wider sense about the end of colonialism ethnic allegiances class & race – & about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things