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Half of a Yellow Sun

2013

Two glamorous, privileged twin sisters in newly independent 1960s Nigeria take very different paths in love and life, until the outbreak of the brutal Biafran war forces them to confront loss, betrayal, and each other. Adapted from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel.

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