Yaa Gyasi Poradie kníh

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.

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.