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Yaa Gyasi
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Pub. Date
2016.
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Effia y Esi nacen en Ghana durante el momento algido del comercio de esclavos a traves del Atlantico. Comparten la misma madre, pero sus padres pertenecen a dos grupos etnicos diferentes, los fante y los asantes, ambos victimas, pero tambien complices, de los colonos britanicos que se dedican a la trata de personas. A las dos hermanas les aguardan destinos opuestos. En catorce capitulos magistralmente enlazados, la escritora narra la historia de las...
Pub. Date
2020
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To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century...
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