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Homegoing BY Yaa Gyasi Want to read ??? Visit -> : https://incledger.com/?book=27071490 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 through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade .


Homegoing BY Yaa Gyasi

Want to read ???
Visit -> : https://incledger.com/?book=27071490

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 through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade .


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Homegoing

Author : Yaa Gyasi Pages : 320 pages Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf

Language : eng ISBN-10 : 27071490 ISBN-13 : 9781101947135

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 through


centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle

with the slave trade

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