Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is aheartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. Now a majorfilm starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, due for release in2014.In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, goes to work forOdenigbo, a radical university professor. Soon they are joined byOlanna, a young woman who has abandoned a life of privilege to livewith her charismatic lover. Into their world comes Richard, an English writer, who has fallen for Olanna's sharp-tongued sister Kainene. But when the shocking horror of civil war engulfs the nation, their loves and loyalties are severely tested, while their lives pull apart andcollide once again in ways none of them could have imagined...
