Yaa Gyasi Knihy

Strhující, kaleidoskopická prvotina představuje pozoruhodný nový hlas anglicky psané literatury: román o rase, dějinách, předcích, lásce a času, který po tři sta let na dvou světadílech sleduje osudy potomků dvou sester, rozdělených v Africe osmnáctého století. Dvě sestry, dcery různých otců, ale stejné matky, Effia a Esi, se v Ghaně osmnáctého století narodí ve dvou různých vesnicích a jedna o druhé nevědí. Effii provdají za Angličana a ona vede pohodlný život v přepychových komnatách pevnosti Cape Coast. Její potomci budou jezdit za vzděláním do ciziny a po návratu na Zlaté pobřeží získají úřednická místa ve správě kolonií. Esi, uvězněná hluboko pod Effií v ženské kobce pevnosti a pak poslaná na lodi do Ameriky, bude prodána do otroctví. Román Yai Gyasi se táhne od ghanských válek k otrokářství a občanské válce v Americe, od uhelných dolů na americkém Jihu k Velké migraci do Harlemu dvacátého století, prochází příběhy, osudy a zeměmi a zachycuje – s pozoruhodnou úsporností a silou – obtížné hledání identity národa i jednotlivce. Yaa Gyasi napsala mistrovské dílo moderní prózy.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. Homegoing, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past. Half-sisters Effia and Esi are born into different villages in Ghana. The sisters' lives follow different paths- Effi marries a wealthy Englishman, while Esi is captured and sold into slavery.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief—a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.