Format: 2nd printing, trade paperback

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear. Softcover. More pictures available upon request.

Product dimensions: n/a

Publishing Info: Anchor Canada, Toronto, 2017

Language: English

ISBN - 13: 9780385686150

 

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A book of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel.

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, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery...

 

About the Author: 

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.

 

Yaa Gyasi bibliography

 

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