"Homegoing is an inspiration." —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAn unforgettable New York Times bestseller of exceptional scope and sweeping vision that traces the descendants of two sisters across three hundred years in Ghana and America.A riveting kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing is a novel about race, history, ancestry, love and time, charting the course of two sisters torn apart in 18th century Africa through to the present day.Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonist, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising "half-caste" children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, before being shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery.Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and—with outstanding economy and force—captures the intricacies of the troubled yet hopeful human spirit.
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Homegoing
von Yaa Gyasi
"Homegoing is an inspiration." —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAn unforgettable New York Times bestseller of exceptional scope and sweeping vision that traces the descendants of two sisters across three hundred years in Ghana and America.A riveting kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing is a novel about race, history, ancestry, love and time, charting the course of two sisters torn apart in 18th century Africa through to the present day.Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonist, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising "half-caste" children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, before being shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery.Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and—with outstanding economy and force—captures the intricacies of the troubled yet hopeful human spirit.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(1)
Rezension von BeniIch habe das Buch in einem Bücherschrank an einem verregneten Tag in Frankfurt gefunden. Was das Buch besonders macht ist, dass es nicht einfach um zwei Protagonist:innen geht, sondern um Generationen zweier Familienstränge die einst beide von der Gold Coast in Westafrika kamen. Wie in kleine Kurzgeschichten taucht man in die Leben der verschiedenen Familienmitglieder ein, eine:r nach dem anderen. Jeder Mensch für sich eine spannende Geschichte. Durch die lange Zeitspanne erzählt das Buch eine Perspektive des Sklavenhandel die nicht durch einzelne Geschichten zu begreifen wäre. Es zeigt die langfristigen Folgen des Kollonialismus auf emotionaler oder familiärer Ebene. Ohne darauf zu zeigen, wird klar wie die Folgen (bis heute) sind. Gleichzeitig lernt ein:e Leser:in viel von den einzelnen Personen. Die aneinanderreihung von Schicksalen bringt eine Lebensweisheit mit, die man nicht erwartet. Einen Stern habe ich abgezogen, weil ich das Buch nicht verschlugen hab und es sich gegen Ende doch etwas zog. Außerdem mochte ich das symbolträchtige (ein bisschen melodramatische) Ende nicht.