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[Yaa Gyasi] ☆ Homegoing: A novel (Random House Large Print) Å Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Homegoing: A novel (Random House Large Print) From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.From the Hardcover edition.. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. Unbeknownst
| Title | : | Homegoing: A novel (Random House Large Print) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0735208190 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-07 |
| Language | : | English |
And somehow all this takes place in the miraculous efficiency of just 300 pages truly captivating.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post “Gyasi echoes James Baldwin’s understanding of a common culture marked by both yearning and pain, in which black people can confront each other across differences and reach a political understanding about what unites them. Gyasi’s instinctive storytelling gifts, the book leaves the reader with a visceral understanding of both the savage realities of slavery and the emotional damage that is handed down, over the centuries, from mothers to daughters, fathers to sons. In her ambitious and sweeping novel, Gyasi has made these lost stories a little more visible.”—Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times “The most powerful debut novel of 2016 . Louis Post-Dispatch"Gyasi's lyrical, devastating debut more than deserves to be held in its own light. Gyasi tra
From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.From the Hardcover edition.. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia’s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Wri
Starts in fire, ends in water; a story of the horrors we inflict and the promise of redemption. Astonishing. RobynJC Homegoing begins in fire, as a house slave sets herself free by burning her master's African village to the ground, and ends in the ocean, as two of her two descendants - from two completely different lineages - find, finally, perhaps, a sort of reconciliation. In between, Ms. Gyasi traces the entire history of Africa and African-Americans. For the slave, Maame, had two daugh. Robert B. Lamm said An Amazing First Novel on the African Diaspora. How I wish Amazon would let us give An Amazing First Novel on the African Diaspora Robert B. Lamm How I wish Amazon would let us give 4½-star reviews. I don't think this is a perfect book. The characters are somewhat flat and predictable, and because of the way Ms Gyasi has decided to tell her story -- more like a group of related stories than a novel -- it's hard to get close to them; just as you think you're getting there, the story stops and you're on to the nex. &frac1"An Amazing First Novel on the African Diaspora" according to Robert B. Lamm. How I wish Amazon would let us give An Amazing First Novel on the African Diaspora Robert B. Lamm How I wish Amazon would let us give 4½-star reviews. I don't think this is a perfect book. The characters are somewhat flat and predictable, and because of the way Ms Gyasi has decided to tell her story -- more like a group of related stories than a novel -- it's hard to get close to them; just as you think you're getting there, the story stops and you're on to the nex. ½-star reviews. I don't think this is a perfect book. The characters are somewhat flat and predictable, and because of the way Ms Gyasi has decided to tell her story -- more like a group of related stories than a novel -- it's hard to get close to them; just as you think you're getting there, the story stops and you're on to the nex. ;-star reviews. I don't think this is a perfect book. The characters are somewhat flat and predictable, and because of the way Ms Gyasi has decided to tell her story -- more like a group of related stories than a novel -- it's hard to get close to them; just as you think you're getting there, the story stops and you're on to the nex. Read it for the history Helen L. Worcester I am giving this book 3 1/2 stars. This is the 3rd book I have read recently which spans several centuries and many generations of more than one family tree. Books written in this vein have too many characters to even keep track of or remember, let alone to get really involved with. There are many interesting stories and characters who would have been enough for one whole boo
From the Hardcover edition.. YAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley, California
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