Download Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi in PDF Free. The Homegoing is a multigenerational novel/story of 2 families of the 18th century from an African region (currently it is Ghana) to the United States of America. In the novel, Yaa Gyasi assembled both characters i.e. beautiful and disturbing, in a very descriptive way.
The novel elaborates how avarice and segregation drove the leaders to engage in “business” with the Whiteman. In a series of subsequent interconnected stories, the heritage of two women is followed through seven generations covering the associated histories of the US and Ghana up to the turn of the 21st century. It also illustrates romance in a not-so-conventional manner. An extraordinary and dreadful look at history, colonialism, and slavery in Ghana and America, across 250 years. The narration of this debut book is mature and very fascinating.
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The homegoing story begins in the late 18th century when we meet with Maame and her two daughters i.e. Effia and Esi, living in Ghana. Effia and Esi are the central characters of this novel. Both girls were born in non-identical environments and circumstances. Both are sisters but born in different circumstances, living far away from each other and in different regions. Even they are unknown to each other.
Effia is a more beautiful and graceful girl while Esi isn’t so beautiful and cute. Effia marries a British man, the Governor of Cape Coast Castle, Mr. James Collins.
It is more interesting as well as suspension that both sisters are now in the same castle. One is the wife of the Governor of this Castle and the other is held in the lock-up of this castle. Both are unaware and unknown to each other. One is free to live, free to go anywhere in the castle and enjoy a luxury and splendor lifestyle.
Each chapter of the novel has a separate story but of the same families. Gyasi fills every story with a new twist and brings the next 7 generations of Effia and Esi in 7 chapters. Effia was a Governor’s wife and Esi was a prisoner, their generations are given characters as their environment. In fact, Gyasi unfolds the three hundred of years of history of the American and African populations.
About “Yaa Gyasi”, the author of “Homegoing”
Yaa Gyasi, a Ghanaian-American novelist, was born in 1989 in Mampong, Ghana. She completed her graduation from Stanford University and MFA (Master of Fine Arts) from the University of Lowa. Her father Kwaku Gyasi is a professor of French at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She holds a BA degree in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship.
Yaa Gyasi had authored only two novels i.e. Homegoing in 2016 and Transcendent Kingdom in 2020. When her first novel was published, she becomes one of the top-selling authors in New York. On her dedicated work on this novel Homegoing, she was awarded National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award, American Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and Award of National Book Foundation “5 Under 35”.
Homegoing Book Details
Publisher: Vintage
Original Title: Homegoing
Author: Yaa Gyasi
Language: English
Pages: 313 Pages
ASIAN: B015VACH4U
File Size: 4057 KB
First Publication Date: June 7, 2016
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