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Paperback. Pub Date:2014-03-13 448 English Fourth Estate Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. this is a heartbreaking. exquisitely written literary masterpiece Now a major film starring Thandie Newton. Dominic Cooper. and Chiwetel Ejiofor. This novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s. at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. It has now been turned into a major film starring Thandie Newton. Dominic Cooper and Chiwetel Ejiofor. due for release in 2014. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturers house. The other is a young middle-class woman. Olanna. who has to confront the reality of the massacre o...