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Il potente romanzo di esordio di Honorée Fanonne Jeffers è il racconto dell'educazione sentimentale di una giovane donna, ma al tempo stesso una grande saga famigliare che attraversa secoli di storia americana. Mescolando con maestria i due piani del presente e del passato, segue il difficile cammino di Ailey Pearl Garfield, che cresce e si forma in una grande città del Nord America, ma fin da bambina ha sempre trascors...

»Ein triumphales Debüt über Schwarze Geschichte und das Aufwachsen im Süden der USA.« New York Times Book Review »Ein brillantes Epos, wie es nur ein Mal in zehn Jahren erscheint. Es wird Ihre Sicht auf Amerika für immer verändern.« Washington Post Jeden Sommer reist Ailey Pearl Garfield nach Chicasetta, einem Provinzort in Georgia, wo die Familie ihrer Mutter seit über 200 Jahren lebt. Dank ihres Onkels Root kommt sie nach Routled...

»Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' Debütroman ist gigantisch!« Oprah Winfrey Ailey Pearl Garfield ist vorlaut, und sie weiß, was sie will. Jeden Sommer reist das Mädchen nach Chicasetta im ländlichen Georgia, wo die Familie ihrer Mutter seit über 200 Jahren lebt. Dank ihres Onkels Root kommt sie nach Routledge, einem historisch Schwarzen College, setzt sich mit dem großen Denker W.E.B. Du Bois auseinander, sucht ihren Platz in der Welt. Um ihn zu fi...

A TOP TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Astonishing... A great work infused with love and honesty' Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple 'Deeply moving... it is magnificent' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTIONLONG-LISTED FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION • A FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • A NOMINEE FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARDA New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year ...

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AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION 'The kind of book that comes around only once a decade...Simply magnificent' Washington Post 'Quite simply the best book that I have read in a very, very long time' New York Times

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK THAT EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT'Beautiful ... In Jeffers' deft hands, the story of race and love in America becomes the Great American Novel' JACQUELINE WOODSON, author of Red at the Bone 'As brilliant as it is necessary, as intimate as it is expansive' ANGIE THOMAS, author of The Hate U Give

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK THAT EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT'Beautiful ... In Jeffers' deft hands, the story of race and love in America becomes the Great American Novel' JACQUELINE WOODSON, author of Red at the Bone 'As brilliant as it is necessary, as intimate as it is expansive' ANGIE THOMAS, author of The Hate U Give

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The award-winning poet and essayist makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with the freshness and forcefulness of Homegoing, The Turner House, and The Water Dancer —that chronicles the journey of one American family from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous time."My life had its significance and its only deep significance because it was part of a Proble...

In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities.

In her three previous, award-winning collections of blues poetry, Honor¿Fanonne Jeffers has explored themes of African American history, Southern culture, and intergenerational trauma. Now, in her fourth and most accomplished collection, Jeffers turns to the task of seeking and reconciling the blues and its three movements - identification, exploration, and resolution - with wisdom. Poems in The Glory Gets ask, What happens on the road to wisd...

In her third book of poems, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry, "The Gospel of Barbecue" and "Outlandish Blues, " use the blues poetic to explore notions of history and trauma. Now, in "Red Clay Suite, " Jeffers"approaches the southern landscape as utopia and dystopia--a crossroads of race, gender, and b...

In her title poem, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers tells of the creation of barbecue, of how slaves cooked their masters' scraps into not merely a survival food but a cuisine. Powerful and moving, Jeffers's poems also provide more than mere sustenance, teaching that sometimes the "nasty leftovers" of life can be transformed into music, scripture, celebration.