Homegoing : a novel / Yaa Gyasi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gyasi, Yaa, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Ghana--Fiction.

Women.

African Americans.

History.

Ghana--History--18th century--Fiction.

Ghana.

Slavery--Fiction.

Slavery.

African Americans--History--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 305 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

Summary:

"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 colonial, 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, and then 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's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."

"Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund."

"Published June 7, 2016."

"This book was set in Scala, a typeface designed by the Dutch designer Martin Majoor (b. 1960) in 1988 and released by the FontFont foundry in 1990."--A Note on the Type.

"Designed by Soonyoung Kwon."

American Book Awards, Winner, 2017

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy is "Third Printing, June 2016" with "a novel" wanting from title page.

Banks Collection copy has [4] leaves of reading guide question with ms. annotations laid in.

Banks Collection copy has "July 14-15, 2016" with ***** written below.

ISBN:

9781101947135

1101947136

OCLC:

922630850

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