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Half of a Yellow Sun

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Half of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi Adichie2007 (first published 2006)Harper Perennialpp. 433Adichie writes about the forgotten civil war in Biafra and the making of ‘united’ Nigeria. The story revolves around the lives of twin sisters of upper middle class Igbo family. A life spent in realising and living the contrast between the haves of middle…

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1984 (Nineteen Eighty Four)

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1984 George Orwell 1949 (This impression 2016) KRJ Publication pp. 259     A work of fiction, 1984 is a brilliant piece by Orwell, on the hunger for power, human instinct, and social class struggle. Critiquing what he foresaw as the likely outcome of the downfall of capitalism, Orwell’s descriptive accounts of the new social order…