Homegoing / Yaa Gyasi

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2016Description: 305 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781101947135
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • FIC GYA 
LOC classification:
  • PS3607.Y37 H66 2016
Summary: Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a novel that moves through histories and geographies and - with outstanding economy and forcé - captures the troubled spirit of our own nation.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Fiction / Ficción Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles General FIC GYA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 037941
Browsing Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. shelves, Shelving location: Sala Ingles, Collection: General Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
FIC GUT House of Earth : a novel FIC GUT Snow Falling on Cedars FIC GUV Older brother FIC GYA Homegoing FIC HAA In a dark wood wandering FIC HAD The porpoise : a novel FIC HAD The London train

Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a novel that moves through histories and geographies and - with outstanding economy and forcé - captures the troubled spirit of our own nation.

English.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

415 15 20293 |  info@labibliotecapublica.org | Newsletter |                                                       f |


contador pagina