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A riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America.§§Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi, imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the wars of Ghana to slavery and the Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the American South to the Great Migration to twentieth-century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's novel moves through histories and geographies and captures--with outstanding economy and force-- the troubled spirit of our own nation. She has written a modern masterpiece.

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• Full title: Homegoing
• Subtitle: A novel, Ausgezeichnet: National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, 2016, Nominiert: PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, 2017. Winner of The National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize 2016
• Author: Yaa Gyasi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781101947135
• ISBN: 1101947136
• ID: 02929616
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Weight: 620 g
• Dimensions: 172 × 245 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. June 2016

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