by Yaa Gyasi · Salamandra Bolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498389562
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Yaa Gyasi's debut novel, 'Homegoing,' tells a captivating story set on the southwestern coast of Africa and in North America from the 18th century to the present. The plot follows two sisters, Effia and Esi, daughters of different ethnic groups, whose destinies irrevocably separate them. While Effia is forced to marry an English governor, Esi is captured and sold into slavery in the United States. Through the generations, the novel explores the lives of their descendants, addressing themes of affliction, hope, and overcoming in the context of historical events such as tribal wars, the cocoa trade, slavery, and the civil rights struggle. This moving work stands out for its ability to intertwine the political with the intimate, history with magic, and for its evocative narrative that captures the complexity of the human experience.
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.
