The Resource Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
Resource Information
The item Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
- Summary
- "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 Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 11 audio discs (13 hr., 11 min.)
- Note
-
- Title from container
- Includes a PDF of the family tree
- Isbn
- 9780735209817
- Label
- Homegoing
- Title
- Homegoing
- Statement of responsibility
- Yaa Gyasi
- Subject
-
- Audiobooks
- Audiobooks
- England
- Fiction
- Ghana
- Ghana -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Intermarriage -- England -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Slavery -- United States -- Fiction
- United States
- Women -- Ghana -- Fiction
- Women, Black -- Fiction
- 1700-1799
- African Americans -- History -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 Effia in the Castle's women's dungeon, and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, where she will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a novel that moves through histories and geographies and--with outstanding economy and force--captures the troubled spirit of our own nation"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gyasi, Yaa
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Dominic Hoffman
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Hoffman, Dominic
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Sisters
- Ghana
- Women, Black
- Slavery
- Intermarriage
- African Americans
- Ghana
- England
- Ghana
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
- Note
-
- Title from container
- Includes a PDF of the family tree
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn928574868
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 11 audio discs (13 hr., 11 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780735209817
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9780735209817
- Publisher number
- PRHA 5744
- Special playback characteristics
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- Stock number
-
- 60bjsw
- ZEbjsw
- 40bjsw
- 50bjsw
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
- Note
-
- Title from container
- Includes a PDF of the family tree
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn928574868
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 11 audio discs (13 hr., 11 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780735209817
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9780735209817
- Publisher number
- PRHA 5744
- Special playback characteristics
- unknown
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- Stock number
-
- 60bjsw
- ZEbjsw
- 40bjsw
- 50bjsw
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Audiobooks
- Audiobooks
- England
- Fiction
- Ghana
- Ghana -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Intermarriage -- England -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Slavery -- United States -- Fiction
- United States
- Women -- Ghana -- Fiction
- Women, Black -- Fiction
- 1700-1799
- African Americans -- History -- Fiction
Genre
Library Locations
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Chevy Chase LibraryBorrow it5625 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20015, US38.9651433 -77.07510599999999
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Francis A. Gregory LibraryBorrow it3660 Alabama Ave. SE, Washington, DC, 20020, US38.8648665 -76.9542163
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Tenley-Friendship LibraryBorrow it4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016, US38.9476208 -77.0799279
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Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) LibraryBorrow it1630 7th St. NW, Washington, DC, 20001, US38.9123733 -77.022493
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