An edition of Homegoing (2016)

Homegoing

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An edition of Homegoing (2016)

Homegoing

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

In eighteenth-century Ghana, two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages. Effia is eventually married to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to her, ESi is imprisoned beneath in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and then shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. The consequences of the sisters' fates reverberate through the generations that follow, From the Gold Coast to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, this is the story of how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
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Charnwood
Language
English
Pages
435

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2019, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (USA) LLC
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Homegoing
2019, Spring International Publishers
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2017 April, Garzanti
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Volver a casa
2017 March, Salamandra
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Homegoing
2017, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Homegoing
2017, Penguin Books, Limited
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Homegoing
May 02, 2017, Anchor Canada
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Homegoing
2017, Charnwood
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Homegoing
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2017, JPV
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2016, Viking
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Homegoing
2016, Bond Street Books / Penguin Random House
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Homegoing
2016 June 07, Books on Tape
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2016-07, Alfred A. Knopf
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2016, Lindhardt og Ringhof
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2016, Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A.
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2016, Lindhardt og Ringhof
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2016, Alfred A. Knopf
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Homegoing
2016, Random House Large Print
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Homegoing
2016, Penguin Books, Limited
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Edition Notes

Published in
Leicester
Copyright Date
2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
432p.
Number of pages
435

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32701207M
Internet Archive
homegoing0000gyas
ISBN 10
1444834258
ISBN 13
9781444834253
OCLC/WorldCat
1083737557
Goodreads
58459368

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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