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Yaa Gyasi
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- First edition
- Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016
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- Summary:
- 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 and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. From the Fante and Asante nations wrestling with the slave trade and British colonization to the plantations of the South and the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, follow the descendants of both sisters and watch how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
- Author/Creator:
- Gyasi, Yaa , author
- Contributors:
- Alfred A. Knopf , publisher
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- (Special Collections copy) Purchase: Funded by the Pat Warde Endowment for Southern Letters.
(Special Collections copy) Bound as issued, in publisher's black paper-covered boards with red paper spine and black spine titles. Retains original decorated dust jacket and decorated slipcase.
(Special Collections copy) Signed by author on title page.
(Special Collections copy) Purchased with funds provided by the Pat Warde Endowment for Southern Letters. - Audience:
- Teenagers
Children
Ages: 16 & up.
Grades: 11 & up. - Physical Description:
- 305, [2] pages ; 25 cm
- Call Numbers:
- JFic G996ho
PS3607.Y37 G937 2016 - ISBNs:
- 9781101947135 (hardcover)
- Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2015039411
- OCLC Numbers:
- 922630850
- Other Control Numbers:
- [Unknown Type]: jlg18887872