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The Book Club Pune, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Gyaan Adab & The Book Club, Pune
presents
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Novel : Homegoing vividly portrays the African and African American experience in the aftermath of enslavement. It achieves this by tracing the descendants of two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, born into different villages in Ghana, for 8 generations. The sisters’ lives follow very different paths: Effia marries a wealthy Englishman while Esi is captured during a raid and sold into slavery.
It won the National Book Critics Award for best first book and many more.
The Author : Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian-American novelist whose family immigrated to US in 1991. She grew up in Alabama where her father was a professor of French at the University. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English at Stanford University, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa. She has recently published her second novel Transcendent Kingdom.
The Presenter : Runa Mukherjee, a former civil servant and corporate executive, has had a life long love affair with Literature which she regards as a prism through which to explore and study people and society.
Zoom Meeting ID: 874 24867392 Password BookClub
Date: Sunday, 24 Jan 2021 | Time: 06.30 PM (IST)
