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Gifty, brillante dottoranda in neuroscienze all'Università di Stanford, è convinta che le emozioni abbiano un'origine solo biologica. Per questo, da quando il padre e il fratello se ne sono andati lottando contro la dura realtà americana, si rivolge alla scienza per dimostrare che tutto ciò che proviamo è riconducibile a un perfetto agglomerato di molecole. Ma la verità è che la sua ricerca s...

Der erste Roman der Autorin Yaa Gyasi umspannt eine Zeitspanne von 300 Jahren und erzählt die Geschichten der beiden Halbschwestern Effia und Esi. Beide werden aus ihrer Heimat Ghana entwurzelt: die eine wird einen englischen Mann heiraten, die andere als Sklavin in die USA verkauft. Jedes Kapitel des Romans folgt einer eigenen Generation der beiden Familien und zeigt auf, wie wertvoll es ist, die eigene (Familien-)geschichte zu kennen. Audio...

Mit dem Auftauchen ihrer Mutter, die sich ins Bett legt und auf nichts mehr reagiert, kehren in Gifty die schmerzhaftesten Kindheitserinnerungen zurück: das Verschwinden des Vaters, der in seine Heimat Ghana zurückging, der Tod des geliebten Bruders und die Depression der Mutter angesichts dieser Verluste. Ihre Familiengeschichte hat dazu geführt, dass Gifty als erwachsene Frau ihren Glauben gegen die Neurowissenschaften eingetauscht hat. Sie ...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels...

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Shortlist 'Women's Prize for Fiction 2021' Mit dem Auftauchen ihrer Mutter, die sich ins Bett legt und auf nichts mehr reagiert, kehren in Gifty die schmerzhaftesten Kindheitserinnerungen zurück: das Verschwinden des Vaters, der in seine Heimat Ghana zurückging, der Tod des geliebten Bruders und die Depression der Mutter angesichts dieser Verluste. Ihre Familiengeschichte hat dazu geführt, dass Gifty als erwachsene Frau ihren Glauben gegen di...

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER 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,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021**From the bestselling author of Homegoing**______________________________________________As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of ...

**From the bestselling author of Homegoing**'A BOOK OF BLAZING BRILLIANCE' Washington Post______________________________________________ As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of sli...

**From the bestselling author of Homegoing comes a searing novel of love and loss, addiction and redemption, straight from the heart of contemporary America** As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the lif...

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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 AlabamaGifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford 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 a knee injury left him...

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 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 ank...

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...

>Heimkehren< spannt einen kühnen Bogen vom Ghana des 18. Jahrhunderts bis in die USA der Gegenwart. Die Geschichte setzt mit Effia und Esi ein - Schwestern, deren Lebenswege von Anfang an getrennt verlaufen. Es ist Effias Stamm, die Fante, der Hand in Hand mit den Briten das Geschäft der Versklavung Tausender betreibt. Über Jahrhunderte profitieren Effias Nachkommen davon oder verzweifeln daran, so wie ihr Enkel James. Dessen Urenkel wiederum,...

Effìa è nata in una notte di fuoco. Le fiamme dal bosco si sviluppano veloci senza sosta, travolgendo ogni cosa al loro passaggio. Ma lei, più forte, è sopravvissuta. Nonostante sua madre sia stata costretta a fuggire lontano da lei. Pochi anni dopo, in un villaggio vicino, nasce Esi. Amata e protetta dalla sua famiglia, cresce felice fino al giorno in cui tutto cambia all'improvviso. Due donne e un legame indistruttibile. Perché Effia ed Esi ...

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Obwohl Effia und Esi Schwestern sind, lernen sie sich nie kennen, denn ihre Lebenswege verlaufen von Anfang an getrennt. Im Ghana des 18. Jahrhunderts heiratet Effia einen Engländer, der im Sklavenhandel zu Reichtum und Macht gelangt. Esi dagegen wird als Sklavin nach Amerika verkauft. Während Effias Nachkommen über Jahrhunderte Opfer oder Profiteure des Sklavenhandels werden, kämpfen Esis Kinder und Kindeskinder ums Überleben: auf den Plantag...

Ghana im 18. Jahrhundert: Die beiden Halbschwestern Effia und Esi wachsen auf, ohne voneinander zu wissen. Während Effia mit einem weißen Engländer verheiratet wird und ein komfortables Leben in Cape Coast führt, wird ihre Halbschwester Esi als Sklavin mit Tausenden anderen auf die Baumwollplantagen Amerikas verschleppt. Mit enormer emotionaler Kraft und über acht Generationen hinweg erzählt Yaa Gyasi die bis in die Gegenwart reichende Geschic...

Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in African American Review, Guernica and Callaloo. Homegoing is her first novel.