Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Adichie

This story has literally everything you would want: love, war, violence, family, rivalry, and the deep themes that you would want to dissect IF you want to dissect them. Colonialism is so ripe within the storyline and is the constant cornerstone which the reader finds himself or herself returning to. Nothing in this book can be explained thoroughly without understanding the consequences of colonialism on Nigeria. Undoubtedly, it is colonialism itself that causes the Biafran War. It's a brilliant case study of the effects of colonialism, but it's so easy to identify with its mor e personal themes that the history becomes almost irrelevant once you start getting to know the people that make up the story itself.