Hjemfærd

Hardcover, 368 pages

Danish language

Published Aug. 8, 2016 by Lindhardt og Ringhof.

ISBN:
978-87-11-55523-1
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OCLC Number:
960496255

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4 stars (61 reviews)

En medrivende roman om race, arv, kærlighed og tid. Yaa Gyasi debuterer med en gribende fortælling om slaveriets konsekvenser i løbet af 300 år, over tre kontinenter og syv generationer.

De to halvsøstre Effia og Esi vokser op i 1700-tallets Ghana uden at kende hinanden. Effia bliver giftet bort til en britisk kolonisator og lever et ubekymret liv på Cape Coast Castle, kan sende sine børn til udlandet for at få en uddannelse, så de kan vende tilbage og arbejde for det engelske imperium på Guldkysten.

Esi bliver taget til fange af de hvide kolonimagter og sidder i fangekælderen under Effias slot, indtil hun bliver skibet til USA som slave. Hendes efterkommere pukler i Alabamas bomuldsplantager, bryder kul i Mississippis miner og flygter fra Sydstaterne og slår sig ned i det 20. århundredes Harlem.

I USA og Ghana stiger og falder velstanden fra forælder til barn, kærligheden kommer og går, …

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Review of 'Homegoing' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I honestly didn't know what I was grabbing when I snagged this from the shelf at the library. It's not exactly a novel, and not exactly a short story collection, but vignettes, small slices of life from a single family over hundreds of years. Either way, it was well written, and I would have enjoyed even deeper looks into their lives.

Review of 'Homegoing' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This is less a novel and more a collection of connected short stories. I recently read "Barkskins" by Annie Proulx, which is very similar insofar as it follows multiple characters down through generations, and I have many of the same criticisms. Being introduced to so many characters, many who we follow for fewer than 30 pages, makes it tough to care about any of them as individuals. Both books detail the way that injustice is carried down through generations. But "Homegoing" provides an interesting contextualization of a history that I've only read about in a dry, non-fictional context, and the book helps to make it feel much more real and immediate.

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