by Yaa Gyasi · Norstedts Förlag · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9789113082752
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«Vända hem» is Yaa Gyasi's first novel, published by Norstedts Förlag in 2018 in a Swedish paperback edition.
Two sisters grow up without knowing each other: Effia is given in marriage to the English governor, and Esi waits in a cell to be sold as a slave. The novel follows the descendants of Effia and Esi and portrays the consequences of the slave trade from the eighteenth century to the present, in a story about identity, home, and reconciliation.
The original work, Homegoing, was published in 2016; the Swedish edition is translated by Inger Johansson.
For readers of historical fiction and book clubs interested in the history of Ghana and the slave trade.
Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her work, most notably her 2016 debut novel Homegoing and her 2020 novel Transcendent Kingdom, features themes of lineage, generational trauma, and Black and African identities. At the age of 26, Gyasi won the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honors for 2016 and the 2017 American Book Award. She was awarded a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature in 2020. As of 2019, Gyasi lives in Brooklyn, New York.
