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Selected for Granta's Best of Young American Novelists 2017Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First BookShortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gripping story of a brilliantly vivid cast of characters and through their lives the very story of America itself.Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portraits, Homegoing is a searing and profound debut from a masterly new writer.
CONTRIBUTORS: Yaa Gyasi
EAN: 9780241980446
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 223 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd
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GENRE: FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Book Themes:
Ghana, United States of America, USA, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Historical fiction
This novel boldly pushes the scope and possibilities of what historical fiction can do. Intimate yet expansive . . . one of the many extraordinary achievements of Gyasi's enviable debut is the writer's ability to make all the myriad descendants here - enslaved mothers, carpenters, academics - equally worthy of the reader's sustained engagement and compassion, Homegoing is a novel I wish I could have read when I was a young woman. An intelligent, beautiful and healing read, destined to become a classic, Shows the unmistakable touch of a gifted writer, One of the richest, most rewarding reads of 2016, Homegoing is one hell of a book... I recommend Homegoing without reservation. Definitely a must read for 2016.
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. Her second book, Transcendent Kingdom, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and is a New York Times bestseller.
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Selected for Granta's Best of Young American Novelists 2017Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First BookShortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gripping story of a brilliantly vivid cast of characters and through their lives the very story of America itself.Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portraits, Homegoing is a searing and profound debut from a masterly new writer.
CONTRIBUTORS: Yaa Gyasi
EAN: 9780241980446
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 223 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical
WIDTH: 129 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Ghana, United States of America, USA, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Historical fiction
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. Her second book, Transcendent Kingdom, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and is a New York Times bestseller.
