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An edition of Homegoing (2016)

Heimför

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

Systrunum Effiu og Esi auðnaðist aldrei að hittast í lifanda lífi. Báðar fæddust þær í Afríku á átjándu öld þegar þrælasalan á Gullströndinni stóð sem hæst. Önnur varð eiginkona þrælakaupmanns í heimalandinu; hin var seld til Ameríku. Við fylgjum þeim og afkomendum þeirra, sjö kynslóðum, í blíðu og stríðu allt til dagsins í dag.

Yaa Gyasi sló rækilega í gegn með þessari fyrstu bók sinni. Hún dregur upp áhrifamikla mynd af örlögum heillar þjóðar þar sem fjölskyldur eiga stöðugt á hættu að tvístrast og glata öllu sem þær eiga. Stríð, þrældómur, fangelsun – og hörmungar í einkalífi – skilja ástvini að og setja mark sitt á tilveruna. En Heimför er líka saga um óbilandi baráttu í hörðum heimi, um það hvernig miskunnarlaus minningin um ánauð greypist inn í innstu sálarkima manneskjunnar og verður henni ævarandi fjötur − eða hvatning til betra lífs.
--forlagid.is

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JPV
Language
Icelandic

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Cover of: Homegoing
Homegoing
2017, Charnwood
in English - First Charnwood Edition
Cover of: Homegoing
Homegoing
2017-04, Vintage Books
Trade Paperback in English - First Vintage Books Edition (10)
Cover of: Heimför
Heimför
2017, JPV
E-book in Icelandic
Cover of: Homegoing
Homegoing
2016-07, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - Sixth Printing
Cover of: Homegoing
Homegoing
2016, Random House Large Print
Paperback in English - First Large Print Edition (1)
Cover of: Homegoing
Homegoing
2016-06, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - Third printing

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Published in
Reykjavík, Iceland
Other Titles
Homegoing
Copyright Date
2017
Translation Of
Homegoing
Translated From
English

Contributors

Translator
Ólöf Eldjárn

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Format
E-book

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Open Library
OL26386603M
ISBN 13
9789935117687
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B06XPCSL5W
Goodreads
35455077

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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