An edition of Homegoing (2016)

Homegoing

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An edition of Homegoing (2016)

Homegoing

  • 4.29 ·
  • 21 Ratings
  • 240 Want to read
  • 13 Currently reading
  • 31 Have read

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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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
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Homegoing
2016, Bond Street Books / Penguin Random House
Hardcover in English
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Homegoing
2016, Random House Large Print
Paperback in English - First Large Print Edition (1)
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Homegoing
2016-07, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - Sixth Printing
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Homegoing
2016-06, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - Third printing

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Copyright Date
2016

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6 23
Library of Congress
PS3607 Y37 H65 2016
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
20159062829

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Hardcover

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Open Library
OL26386050M
ISBN 10
0385686137
ISBN 13
9780385686136
OCLC/WorldCat
921572993
abebooks,de
21819905688
amazon.ca_asin
0385686137
Canadian National Library Archive
44011495
Goodreads
28250847

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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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