by Yaa Gyasi · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241975237
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«Homegoing» is the historical novel and family saga by Yaa Gyasi, published by Penguin Books in paperback (320 pages, in English).
The story begins with two sisters from the African Gold Coast, Effia and Esi, whose paths are separated by slavery: one is sold, the other becomes the wife of a slave trader. Through their descendants, the novel moves between Ghana and the United States, from the cotton plantations of Mississippi to the bars of Harlem, to show how that initial fracture marks seven generations.
Yaa Gyasi's debut novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Book and selected by Granta as one of the best young American novelists of 2017.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction and generational sagas, with an interest in the history of slavery and its consequences in Ghana and the United States.
Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her work, most notably her 2016 debut novel Homegoing and her 2020 novel Transcendent Kingdom, features themes of lineage, generational trauma, and Black and African identities. At the age of 26, Gyasi won the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honors for 2016 and the 2017 American Book Award. She was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature in 2020. As of 2019, Gyasi lives in Brooklyn, New York.
