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02109aam a2200349Mi 4500 001 61CEFA784E9711E89FC9FA0D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180503010025 008 160704s2016 nyu 000 0 eng d 035 $a (OCoLC)953973847 040 $a DEBBG $b ger $e rakwb $c DEBBG $d IW8 $d SILO 100 1 $a Gyasi, Yaa $e Verfasser. $4 aut 245 00 $a Homegoing / $c Yaa Gyasi. 260 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2016. 300 $a 305 pages : $b genealogical table ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "A novel"--Dust jacket. 520 $a "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"--. 650 7 $a FICTION / African American / Historical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Sagas. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 4 $a Women / Ghana / Fiction. 650 4 $a Slavery / Fiction. 650 4 $a African Americans / History / Fiction. 650 7 $a African Americans. $2 fast 650 7 $a Slavery. $2 fast 650 7 $a Women. $2 fast 651 4 $a Ghana / History / 18th century / Fiction. 651 7 $a Ghana. $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l GMPD771 $d 20230210015926.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=61CEFA784E9711E89FC9FA0D97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IW8Initiate Another SILO Locator Search