An edition of Homegoing (2016)

Hjemfærd

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An edition of Homegoing (2016)

Hjemfærd

  • 4.29 ·
  • 21 Ratings
  • 236 Want to read
  • 13 Currently reading
  • 30 Have read

En medrivende roman om race, arv, kærlighed og tid. Yaa Gyasi debuterer med en gribende fortælling om slaveriets konsekvenser i løbet af 300 år, over tre kontinenter og syv generationer.

De to halvsøstre Effia og Esi vokser op i 1700-tallets Ghana uden at kende hinanden. Effia bliver giftet bort til en britisk kolonisator og lever et ubekymret liv på Cape Coast Castle, kan sende sine børn til udlandet for at få en uddannelse, så de kan vende tilbage og arbejde for det engelske imperium på Guldkysten.

Esi bliver taget til fange af de hvide kolonimagter og sidder i fangekælderen under Effias slot, indtil hun bliver skibet til USA som slave. Hendes efterkommere pukler i Alabamas bomuldsplantager, bryder kul i Mississippis miner og flygter fra Sydstaterne og slår sig ned i det 20. århundredes Harlem.

I USA og Ghana stiger og falder velstanden fra forælder til barn, kærligheden kommer og går, og karakterernes tillid til den hvide mand vakler.
--lindhardtogringhof.dk

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Language
Danish
Pages
368

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Homegoing
2017-04, Vintage Books
Trade Paperback in English - First Vintage Books Edition (10)
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Homegoing
2017, Charnwood
in English - First Charnwood Edition
Cover of: Hjemfærd
Hjemfærd
2016, Lindhardt og Ringhof
Hardcover in Danish
Cover of: Homegoing
Homegoing
2016-06, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - Third printing
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Homegoing
2016-07, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - Sixth Printing
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Homegoing
2016, Random House Large Print
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Edition Notes

Published in
Copenhagen, Denmark
Other Titles
Homegoing
Copyright Date
2016
Translation Of
Homegoing
Translated From
English

Contributors

Translator
Louise Ardenfelt Ravnild

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
368

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26385663M
ISBN 10
8711555238
ISBN 13
9788711555231
OCLC/WorldCat
960496255, 959319157
Goodreads
31456493

Work Description

Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held captive in the dungeons below. Subsequent chapters follow their children and following generations.

The novel was selected in 2016 for the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2017. It received the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for 2017, an American Book Award, and the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature.

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The night Effia Otcher was born into the musky heat of Fanteland, a fire raged through the woods just outside her father’s compound.
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