Beautiful woman Оланна from rich family never differed in impudence, as her сестра-двойняшка Кайнене, but exactly Оланна decided to leave complete comfort life for the sake of love. Moving in a little small town, where her prospective husband, professor of local university, lived and worked, she understood hardly, that changed the fate beyond retrieve. Rural boy Угву, entering service in a professorial house, did not guess too, that from now on him life will change irreversibly and unforeseeable. A bashful young englishman Richard, arriving to Nigeria, to write a book, quite not gathered to remain here forever. And rebellious and spoiled Кайнене thought hardly, that would load on to the fragile shoulders responsibility for life of enormous number of people. But the war brought down on a country not only warped the fates of people but also changed them, dragging out that in ordinary outside hides life after gloss of civilized. Оланне, Угву, coming Richard and all other heroes of novel to pass through unthinkable horrors of war, not once face to face to run into death and again to find itself after frightful tests.Complete tense dramatic effect a novel "Half of a yellow sun" tells to history of a few people, are histories that was interlaced by striking character. Readers named the novel of Адичи "African "Running after wind", and the British critics awarded the most prestige bonus "Orange" to him.