Yaa Gyasi Knihy

Osemnáste storočie, Ghana. Dve nevlastné sestry Effia a Esi sa narodia v rôznych dedinách. Effiu vydajú za Angličana a žije v pohodlí v komnatách pevnosti Cape Coast. Effia netuší, že jej sestra Esi je uväznená v podzemných kobkách a spolu s tisíckami ďalších ju predajú ako otrokyňu a odvezú do Ameriky, kde zažijú jej deti a vnúčatá život v neslobode. Jedna dejová línia sleduje Effiino potomstvo v priebehu storočí vo vojnami zmietanej Ghane, kde národy Fantov a Ašantov zápasia s otrokárstvom a britskou kolonizáciou. Druhá dejová línia sleduje Esi a osudy jej detí v Amerike. Prevedie čitateľov južanskými plantážami, občianskou vojnou a veľkým sťahovaním černošského obyvateľstva, nechá ich nazrieť do uhoľných baní v Pratt City v Alabame, vezme ich do džezových klubov a feťáckych brlohov Harlemu dvadsiateho storočia a skončí sa v súčasnosti. Návrat domov približuje históriu a s neuveriteľnou emočnou silou zachytáva, ako veľmi sa do duše národa vryli spomienky na život v zajatí. Spisovateľka Yaa Gyasi sa posúva od generácie ku generácii a osud jednotlivca stavia zoči-voči zničujúcim poryvom času. Predstavuje čitateľovi životy ľudí, ktorých nemilosrdne zmietli dejinné sily.

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.

Gifty is the younger child in a family of four who have emigrated from Ghana to the American South. While her gorgeous brother is a sports hero, her father longs to return home and her mother is desperate to hold this family of four together. When Gifty's brother's glorious success on the basketball court falters, addiction strikes and the mother turns inward, and to religion, to find a cure. Each one of the characters tries to find a way to heal the heartbreak- for the mother it is God, for Gifty's father it is escape and for Gifty, our narrator - it is science. But can family love survive when the family itself feels like it is on the edge of disappearing? In her new novel, Yaa Gyasi, by turning her gaze from the historical to the present, has produced an extraordinarily acute and resonant novel about a contemporary family that is as powerful and as moving as her first novel. It confirms her position as one of the country's most brilliant young novelists.