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Half of a Yellow Sun
$400.00
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Fourth Estate, London, 2006. First U.K. edition and true first.
Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and named the “Best of the Best” of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize and Baileys Women’s Prize) in 2020, recognizing it as the best book to have won the prize in its 25-year history.
Signed by the author and dated five days prior to the official publication date.
Fine in fine dust wrapper, lightly crinkled at the spine tips.
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