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Yaa Gyasi

    1 janvier 1989

    YAA GYASI est née au Ghana et a grandi à Huntsville, en Alabama. Elle est titulaire d'un BA en anglais de l'Université de Stanford et d'un MFA de l'Iowa Writers' Workshop, où elle a bénéficié d'une bourse de recherche. Elle vit à Brooklyn. YAA GYASI est disponible pour des conférences sélectionnées. Pour toute demande concernant une éventuelle apparition, veuillez contacter le Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau à l'adresse speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com ou visiter prhspeakers.com.

    Yaa Gyasi
    Elefanti bestseller: Non dimenticare chi sei
    Homegoing
    Transcendent Kingdom
    Penguin Readers Level 7: Homegoing
    No Home
    • No Home

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      XVIIIe siècle, au temps de la traite des esclaves. Ghanéennes, Effia et Esi sont demi-sœurs mais ne se connaissent pas. La sublime Effia est mariée de force à un Anglais, le capitaine du fort de Cape Coast. Dans les cachots de ce fort sont enfermés les futurs esclaves. Parmi eux, Esi. Elle sera expédiée en Amérique. Ses enfants et petits-enfants seront continuellement jugés sur la couleur de leur peau. La descendance d'Effia, métissée et éduquée, perpétuera le commerce triangulaire familial et devra survivre dans un pays meurtri pour des générations. Yaa Gyasi nous conte le destin d'une famille à l'arbre généalogique brisé par la cruauté des hommes. Un voyage dans le temps inoubliable. Une incroyable saga, un talent inouï. Vertigineux. Estelle Lenartowicz, Lire. Une écriture limpide, un savant dosage de politique et d’intime, d’histoire et de magie. Gladys Marivat, Le Monde des livres. No Home pourrait bien devenir un classique. Yves Viollier, La Vie.

      No Home
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    • Penguin Readers Level 7: Homegoing

      • 128pages
      • 5 heures de lecture

      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.

      Penguin Readers Level 7: Homegoing
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    • Transcendent Kingdom

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      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.

      Transcendent Kingdom
      4,1
    • Homegoing

      Lektüre mit Audio-Online

      • 128pages
      • 5 heures de lecture
      Homegoing
    • Effìa nasce in una notte di fuoco, sopravvivendo a un incendio che distrugge tutto. Sua madre è costretta a fuggire, lasciandola sola. Pochi anni dopo, in un villaggio vicino, nasce Esi, amata dalla sua famiglia fino a quando la sua vita cambia drasticamente. Effia ed Esi sono sorelle, ma non lo sanno e non lo sapranno mai. Entrambe portano al collo un ciondolo di pietra nera, l'unico legame con la madre, simbolo di conforto e speranza. Il destino le separa: Effia sposa un governatore inglese, mentre Esi viene venduta come schiava negli Stati Uniti. Tuttavia, il loro legame trascende il tempo e le distanze. Generazioni dopo, Marcus e Marjorie, ignari delle loro origini, si trovano a dover riannodare un filo spezzato. Senza radici, non possono costruire un futuro. Sanno che per ritrovare se stessi devono scoprire da dove provengono. Con il ciondolo di pietra nera che vibra sulla pelle di Marjorie, insieme sono pronti a esplorare una storia sepolta, ricca di destini intrecciati. È una ricerca delle proprie radici e dell'amore che dà coraggio. Solo conoscendo il passato possono affrontare il futuro e abbracciare un nuovo giorno.

      Elefanti bestseller: Non dimenticare chi sei
      3,8