Title : No Home - Yaa Gyasi - book
Summary :
18th century, at the height of the slave trade. Effia and Esi are born to the same mother, in two rival villages in Ghana. The sublime Effia is forcibly married to an Englishman, the captain of the Cape Coast Fort. Their room overlooks the dungeons where captives are locked up, who will become slaves once they cross the ocean. Effia is unaware that her sister Esi is imprisoned there, before being shipped to America where, from the cotton fields to Harlem, her children and grandchildren will be tirelessly judged for the color of their skin. The descendants
Effia, mixed-race and educated, experiences another form of suffering: perpetuating the family triangular trade on site and then surviving in a country that has been ravaged for generations.
Navigating brilliantly between Africa and America, Yaa Gyasi chronicles the destiny of a family whose family tree has been shattered by human cruelty. An unforgettable journey through time.
- EAN: 9782702159637
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