Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Buch

Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fates reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to a cotton-picking plantation in Mississippi; from a village missionary school to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - an intense, heartbreaking story of one family and through their lives the very story of America itself.Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portraits, Homegoing is a novel about how history shapes us all. It is a se… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-241-98044-6
EAN: 9780241980446
Produktnummer: 20684909
Verlag: Penguin Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.7 cm 227 g
Gewicht: 227

Über den Autor

Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her first novel, Homegoing, was a Sunday Times bestseller, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2017 Yaa Gyasi was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists and in 2019 the BBC selected her debut as one of the 100 Novels that Shaped Our World.