Yaa Gyasi
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 4.43 | 145925 Users | 18005 Reviews
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| Title | : | Homegoing |
| Author | : | Yaa Gyasi |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | June 7th 2016 by Alfred A. Knopf |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Literary Fiction. Audiobook. Adult |
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A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. 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. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. 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.
Generation after generation, Yaa Gyasi's magisterial first novel sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control. Homegoing is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer.
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| Original Title: | Homegoing |
| ISBN: | 1101947136 (ISBN13: 9781101947135) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Cobbe Otcher, Effia Otcher, Big Man Assare, Esi Assare, Quey Collins, Richard Collins, Ness Stockham, Sam, James Richard Collins, Akosua Mensah, Kojo Freeman, Anna Foster, Abena Collins, Ohene Nyarko, H Black, Ethe Jackson, Akua Collins, Asamoah Agyekum, Eli Dalton, Willie Black, Robert Clifton, Yaw Agyekum, Esther Amoah, Carson Clifton, Amani Zulema, Marjorie Agyekum, Marcus Clifton, Maame |
| Setting: | Ghana |
| Literary Awards: | American Book Award (2017), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2017), Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics (2017), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017), Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017) National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2016), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2016), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2016), Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2017), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2018) |
Rating Containing Books Homegoing
Ratings: 4.43 From 145925 Users | 18005 ReviewsEvaluation Containing Books Homegoing
Right now it feels as if it's torn my heart and soul apart reading this deeply emotional book. It's been such a traumatic journey, and in addition to being profoundly moved by it all, I also feel both anger and shame at man's inhumanity to man.Homegoing tells the story of stepsisters, Effia and Esi, and it charts their lives and subsequent generations of their families from the 18th century onwards, but most importantly it's about the slave trade in all it's grim and sordid detail. These sistersWhat I know now, my son: Evil begets evil. It grows. It transmutes, so that sometimes you cannot see that the evil in the world began as the evil in your own home. 4 1/2 stars. Homegoing is an incredible and horrific look at history, colonialism and slavery in Ghana and America, across 250 years. How the author managed to create such rich characters, cover so much history, and tell such a complex, but compelling story in only 300 pages, I do not know.I recently said in my review of East of Eden
Because it--coupled with a once-in-a-lifetime trip into el mero corazon Azteca i.e. Mexico, Distrito Federal--affected me so much at just the correct time, "Homegoing" for me is the BOOK OF THE YEAR. It tackles huge themes (the main & overpowering ingredient in all the realm of literature is this confidence on the auteurs part to handle & fashion the ethereal) with the verocity and insatiability of a killer shark. Gyasi is the perennial literary Great White Shark--less common this
We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing?, Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture. I was a bit afraid to read this novel because of its hype as it seems that recently I do not fare well with overpraised novels. I can safely say that I neednt
Read for Book Riot's 2017 Read Harder reading challenge: #24 Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of colorThe premise for this book is amazing. Two sisters are separated at birth, and each alternating chapter follows a descendant of each sister. Great, right?My biggest issue was that this felt more like a collection of short stories than a novel. There's nothing wrong with that necessarily, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. When I read a novel, I want to feel connected to
This multigenerational epic has already gotten lots of attention, and it deserves every bit of it. Gyasis debut novel begins with two half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana, strangers to each other. Effia marries a white man, and Esi is enslaved and taken to America. The novel follows the children of these two women through the generations, alternating between Africa and America. As we meet each new descendent, we see how the legacy of slavery plays out across history, both for the enslaved and for
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