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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
《回家之路》雅阿·吉亚西
这是一部描写从加纳到美国的三百年历史的伟大小说，具有令人惊叹的广阔视野和情感力量。非凡的语言、无尽的悲伤、高耸入云的美感，以及对塑造家庭和国家的力量的不朽描绘。
18世纪的加纳，两个同父异母的姐妹艾菲娅和艾西出生在不同的村庄。艾菲娅嫁给了一个英国人，在海岸角城堡的豪华房间里过着舒适的生活。她并不知道，她的妹妹艾西被囚禁在城堡的地牢里，与成千上万的人一起被卖到黄金海岸繁荣的奴隶贸易中，并被运往美国，在那里她的子孙将在奴隶制中长大。
埃菲娅的后代经历了方特族和阿桑特族与奴隶贸易和英国殖民展开了搏斗等加纳几个世纪的战乱。跟随埃西和她的孩子们进入美国，从南方的种植园到南北战争和大移民，从阿拉巴马州普拉特市的煤矿到 20 世纪哈莱姆区的爵士乐俱乐部和毒品屋，一直到今天。
《背井离乡》让历史变得直观，并以奇特而惊人的直接性捕捉到被掳走的记忆是如何铭刻在一个民族的灵魂中的。
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia’s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation. Generation after generation, Yaa Gyasi’s magisterial first novel sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control. Homegoing is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer.
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