![]() ![]() 'Can we speak, please?' She looked up, and he noticed, first, that her eyes were swollen and raw, and then he saw the wounded rage in them. Her silence and the noises and smells from the kitchen made him feel claustrophobic. Richard sat opposite her, unsure of what to do, too guilty even to pour his tea. 'Harrison is making pancakes,' she said, and turned back to her paper. ![]() Kainene sat drinking a cup of tea and reading a newspaper with the light on. The rain was heavy on the roof and the overcast sky cast a pallor over the dining room. Extract 1 How does Adichie present the relationship between Richard and Kainene in this extract? Kainene greeted him with a stoic face in the morning. The novel tackles complex themes such as war, love, gender and status. ![]() Through this characters we view the period from the perspectives of the haves, the have nots and the outsiders. Set in 1960s Nigeria, we follow the interweaving stories of Ugwu (a village boy), Olanna (a member of the Nigerian elite) and Richard (an English writer/journalist) through the early days of post-colonial rule and into the harrowing Biafran war. ![]()
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