![]() ![]() His aunty walked faster, her slippers making slap-slap sounds that echoed in the silent street. He would never be able to describe to his sister Anulika how the bungalows here were painted the color of the sky and sat side by side like polite well-dressed men, how the hedges separating them were trimmed so flat on top that they looked like tables wrapped with leaves. He had never seen anything like the streets that appeared after they went past the university gates, streets so smooth and tarred that he itched to lay his cheek down on them. He was prepared to walk hours more in even hotter sun. They had been walking for a while now, since they got off the lorry at the motor park, and the afternoon sun burned the back of his neck. He did not disagree with his aunty, though, because he was too choked with expectation, too busy imagining his new life away from the village. Ugwu did not believe that anybody, not even this master he was going to live with, ate meat every day. ![]() ![]() You will even eat meat every day." She stopped to spit the saliva left her mouth with a sucking sound and landed on the grass. "And as long as you work well, you will eat well. Ugwu's aunty said this in a low voice as they walked on the path. Master was a little crazy he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair. In it the plot follows the Ibo people's fight to form the independent nation of Biafra. 'Half of a Yellow Sun' is Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's second novel. ![]()
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