by Yaa Gyasi · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498387971
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«Volver a casa» is the historical novel by Yaa Gyasi, published by Salamandra in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Two sisters born in Ghana in the 18th century never meet: Effia marries an English governor and lives in a coastal fortress; Esi is captured and sold into slavery in the United States. The novel follows their descendants over centuries, from Africa to North America, along paths of slavery, migration, and family memory.
First novel by Yaa Gyasi, originally published in English as «Homegoing». Part of the Salamandra Narrativa collection.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas interested in slavery, migration, and the memory of the African diaspora.
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.
