Yaa Gyasi, "Homegoing"
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2016
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Born in Ghana, raised in Alabama, and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Gyasi draws on her heritage in this remarkable debut novel, which opens in 18th-century Ghana and follows the lives of two half-sisters. Born in neighboring villages and unknown to each other, Effia and Esi live out two distinct historical trajectories. Effia marries an Englishman and lives in a castle. Esi, after imprisonment in the castle’s dungeon, is shipped overseas as a slave. Then come civil wars, post-colonialism, the Great Migration, and the narrative winds its way to 20th-century Harlem.
Gyasi is in conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Wench and Balm.
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OMG, this is one of the greatest books I have read. Just so good. I'm buying copies for all of my family. It is fucking amazing. Just brilliant. So damn brilliant.
The last chapter of this book killed me. I cried so hard. Touched me deeply as a black American and made me feel warm and connected
this book has changed my life.
what a wonderful speaker session. the questions asked both by the interviewer and audience members were great. thanks so much for putting this up!!!
This book was BRILLIANTLY crafted, left nothing undone, and left me completely satisfied. From the first page to the last...love this book!
This book connected me and disclosured to me a completely different reality and culture. The dynamics of the personal histories is amazing.
Thank you for this novel book 📚 Yaa Gyasi 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️✅🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
great interview ms. perkins-valdez and i love her style. Also this is one of my favorite books. I was swallowed up in the story.
Wow, excellent novel. I am Dominican-American and I had to read this novel for college. Please read it, applause for Yaa Gyasi
Wonderful interview!! Getting ready to read the book for our book discussion. Should be a highly interesting talk.
I'm starting this book this week....can't wait to dive into it!
I am reading the book and I am loving it.. 5 star read!!
Great interview! I just finished the book and was just blown away by it.
Absolutely beautiful. Can't wait to read this book. I've seen it around. I can't wait to visit Castle.
omg shes so beautiful and humble
Homegoing!
I would love to read this book. But correct me if I am wrong but the British did not bring written language. They brought their written language. There was written language in "Ghana" before they encountered the British and other European nations.
Marian Akiti
Written language was in Western africa since the 9.th century. The arabic writing system.
The arabic system was for western africa, what the greek and latin alphabetic system was for Europe.
There are many evils on earth but the slave trade was an establishment of supreme evil
“for the love of money” I think Africans assumed the same power as the Europeans who landed on the shore as much as this imposed that same power to the other ethnic groups before they landed. It makes me think of monarchal power as being a global language. We as Africans aren’t exempt.