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Homegoing

Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the... Číst víc

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320 stran
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Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow... Číst víc

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A BBC Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our World

Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow.

Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa 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, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gripping story of a brilliantly vivid cast of characters and through their lives the very story of America itself. Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portraits, Homegoing is a searing and profound debut from a masterly new writer. 'This incredible book travels from Ghana to the US revealing how slavery destroyed so many families, traditions and lives - and how its terrifying impact is still reverberating now.

Gyasi has created a story of real power and insight' Stylist, the Decade's 15 Best Books by Remarkable Women
Selected for Granta's Best of Young American Novelists 2017
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Book
Shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Shortlisted for the Beautiful Book Award 2017
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Počet stran
320
Vazba
brožovaná vazba
Rozměr
131×196 mm
Hmotnost
232 g
Rok vydání
2017
Naše katalogové číslo
802031
Styl
filozofický, historický
Jazyk
angličtina
Původ
Ghana
Nakladatel
Penguin Books
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pro ženy
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Rijeka.books
Neověřený nákup
25.9.2022
Román o lásce, předcích, dějinách a osudových zvratech. Tuhle knížku od ghanské autorky Yaa Gyasi určitě řadím mezi nejlepší knížky co jsem kdy četla. Ten příběh je doslova ohromující. Sledujeme osudy potomků dvou sester Effie a Esi, rozdělených v Africe v 18. století. Jedna větev předků žije v Ghaně, druhá se jako otroci dostali do Ameriky. Mapuje celkem 300 let života potomků až dodnes. Často jsem se vracela k rodokmenu, který je vyobrazený na dalším snímku a všechny tyto lidi kniha zobrazuje. Máte strach z vody nebo z ohně? Až se dozvíte, co se stalo vašim prapředkům, možná pochopíte, proč se Vám to děje. Určitě se chystám na další africké autory. Číst víc
Alena Chlebovcová
Ověřený zákazník
23.7.2019
skvele
skvela kniha najvzajom popreplietanych trpkych pribehov viacerych generacii otrokov, otrokarov alebo obycajnych ludi tmavej pleti, ktori sa len snazia byt stastni napriek predpotopnym spolocenskym obmedzeniam. pribehy su kratke, ale o to triznivejsie.
preklad je skvely.
jedna z najlepsich knih, ake som posledne roky citala. ak sa vas tato kniha vnutorne nedotkne, tak mate odpoved na otazku ci ste sociopat.
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Katarina Szulenyiová
Ověřený zákazník
17.5.2019
Tento příspěvek prozrazuje důležité momenty děje, proto je skrytý, abychom vám nepokazili zážitek ze čtení.
“When he was young, his father told him that black people didn’t like water because they were brought over on slave ships.

What did a black man want to swim for? The ocean floor was already littered with black men.”

Homegoing is a magnificent story of a curse, a family and slavery.

While not a novel in a traditional sense, where we follow the same characters move through situations and life experience, the structural form in itself is exquisite.

Yaa Gyasi pieces the book together as though creating a pearl necklace, stringing each chapter one after another, carefully, piece by piece. Each chapter brings to life different set of memorable characters, each chapter gives you a short glimpse into their everyday, yet painful lives, making you feel the challenges slavery brought about to both the African and American society.

The thread that holds the tiny windows of stories together is one family line, and the curse that comes with it. Starting with two separate stories of two sisters that never knew each other, Homegoing gives us glimpse into the defining moment of each generation, always taking a slightly different take on the same topic - challenges to build a solid, stable family on the background of the slave trade and racism towards the blacks, as much as the whites.

Spanning across three hundred years, in vivid colours we get to experience the arrival of the British to the Gold Coast, the beginnings of the slave trade, the hardships of working on American plantations or in coal mines, the Civil War and segregation, all the way to the racism in the streets of Harlem and the modern society make-up.

What I appreciated the most about the book was the author’s ability to make me care about the characters from every single one of the stories, never feeling let down by their abrupt cut-offs, as Yaa Gyasi always masterfully vowed the end of the previous storyline into the next.

I loved reading the stories of Abena, Akua and Willie. I ached with them, shook my head with disbelief at their harrowing fate, and I admired their strength to fight whatever life (or the curse) threw at them. There was something mystifying in the way they took the life’s hits, without a word of complaint, and just kept on doing their absolute best to keep on living.

I also loved the touch of mysticism, the way the intangible “curse” kept on popping to the surface throughout the time. Sometimes in the form of sanity-consuming nightmares, sometimes as fleeting feelings and visions, and sometimes, simply as a legend that the villagers and families kept on passing to each other. Until now, I still sense the sickening feeling deep in my stomach when Marcus stands in front of the Door of No Return and the weight of the past 250 years comes crashing down on him, the curse finally demonstrating itself in a physical form.

I could keep on talking about all the other things the author so tastefully tackles. Christianity; her specific, and yet not direct, portrayal of white people; the defining role that community plays in Africa, and not in America; and the perpetuating damaging effects that slavery had caused not only between whites and blacks, but also between blacks and blacks themselves.

However, I recommend you just read the book instead. It is an experience that will stay with you for months and months after you put it back on the shelf, bringing this uncomfortable, yet unavoidable, part of our history to life in a way that you just won’t forget.

For me, Homegoing fulfills the same role as the Cape Coast Castle. The Castle that still stands there, after all these years, “glowing white. Powder white, like the entire thing had been scrubbed down to gleaming, cleansed of any stains.” As if no time has passed, a white stain that no matter how hard it’s scrubbed, it will be a constant, unwavering reminder of what shaped the society we now live in.

“A part of something that stretched so far back, was so impossibly large, that it was easy to forget that she, and he, and everyone else, existed in it—not apart from it, but inside of it.”
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anhale
Neověřený nákup
21.11.2017
Nádherná kniha, plná skvelých myšlienok, situácií a postáv. Sledovať ako sa vyvíjala spoločnosť bolo vskutku zaujímavé. Jedna z mojich najobľúbenejších kníh Číst víc

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