Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

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«Homegoing is an inspiration.» —Ta-Nehisi Coates A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants…
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  • Refiloe Masitashared an impression3 years ago
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    beautfiully written and so much to learn in these pages

  • Дарья Расковаshared an impression6 years ago
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    о нескольких поколениях выходцев из Ганы, о жизни племен ашанте и фанти, рабстве, дискриминации. интересно!

  • Ivana Lolashared an impression4 years ago
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Quotes

  • Christabelle Adelinehas quoted7 years ago
    you could not inherit a scar.
  • Лика Меликсетянhas quoted2 years ago
    Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
  • Лика Меликсетянhas quoted2 years ago
    The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.

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