Homegoing
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  • Published: 5 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241979259
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.99

Homegoing

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19 Jun 2017
EBook
7 Jun 2016
Audiobook
5 Jan 2017
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A sweeping and profoundly moving story on the bonds of family and history - Yaa Gyasi is the Toni Morrison of the 21st century

Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gripping story of a brilliantly vivid cast of characters and through their lives the very story of America itself.

Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portraits, Homegoing is a searing and profound debut from a masterly new writer.
  • Published: 5 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241979259
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for Homegoing

This novel boldly pushes the scope and possibilities of what historical fiction can do. Intimate yet expansive . . . one of the many extraordinary achievements of Gyasi's enviable debut is the writer's ability to make all the myriad descendants here - enslaved mothers, carpenters, academics - equally worthy of the reader's sustained engagement and compassion

Michael Donkor

A tremendous debut

Phil Klay, author of 'Redeployment'

One of the richest, most rewarding reads of 2016

Elle

A marvellous novel

Starred Publishers Weekly

Homegoing is a remarkable feat - a novel at once epic and intimate, capturing the moral weight of history as it bears down on individual struggles, hopes and fears. A tremendous debut

Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment
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