Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (English) Paperback Book

Description: Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 2013s most talked about debut comes out in paperbackMeet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, West Africa, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. Now this broken family has a chance to heal - but can the Sais take it? Notes Paperback edition of the debut novel from the protege of Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie, who was chosen as one of Grantas Best Young British Novelists. Follows the fortunes of a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the USA. An eye for the perfect detail... an unforgettable voice on the page... miss out on Ghana Must Go and will miss out on one of the best new novels of the season The Economist Author Biography Taiye Selasi was born in London and raised in Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford. In 2013 she was selected as one of Grantas 20 Best Young British Novelists. Review This book is rich and deep, mesmerizing and spectacular. At times I felt it opened a portal onto something grand and profound about love and blood and the ties that bind. Read it and you will feel what great literature can do: you will feel you are more vividly alive -- Anna FunderGhana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one familys fortunes and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members. With her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period. An astonishing debut -- Teju Cole, author of * Open City *An eye for the perfect detail . . . an unforgettable voice on the page . . . miss out on Ghana Must Go and you will miss one of the best new novels of the season * The Economist *Taiye Selasi is the woman the literary world is drooling over . . . [Ghana Must Go] is technically ambitious, poetically dense . . . an unpredictable family story of love, abandonment, aspiration and migration -- Claire Allfree * Metro *Taiye Selasi writes with glittering poetic command, a sense of daring, and a deep emotional investment in the lives and transformations of her characters . . . a powerful portrait of a broken family -- Diana Evans * Guardian *A most impressive first novel. . . She manages a generous coverage of time and space with adroit concision, along with a vibrant range of characters. The family is so convincing, with those telling problems of divided culture. Very much a novel of today -- Penelope LivelyTaiye Selasi is a young writer of staggering gifts and extraordinary sensitivity. Ghana Must Go seems to contain the entire world, and I shall never forget it -- Elizabeth Gilbert, author of * Eat, Pray, Love *With mesmerizing craftsmanship and massive imagination [Taiye Selasi] takes the reader on an unforgettable journey across continents and most importantly deeply into the lives of the people whom she writes about. She de-"exoticizes" whole populations and demographics and brings them firmly into the readers view as complicated and complex human beings. Ghana Must Go is a big novel, elemental, meditative, and mesmerizing -- Sapphire, author of * The Kid and Push *In Ghana Must Go, Selasi drives the six characters skillfully through past and present, unearthing old betrayals and unexplained grievances at a delicious pace. By the time the surviving five convene at a funeral in Ghana, we are invested in their reconciliation--which is both realistically shaky and dramatically satisfying ... Narrative gold * Elle *Selasis ambition - to show her readers not "Africa" but one African family, authors of their own achievements and failures - is one that can be applauded no matter what accent you give the word -- Nell Freudenberger * The New York Times *The first line of Taiye Selasis buoyant first novel, Ghana Must Go, captures the book in miniature: "Kweku dies barefoot on a Sunday before sunrise, his slippers by the doorway to the bedroom like dogs." The springy dactylic meter of the prose (KWEku dies BAREfoot on a . . .), the sly internal rhymes (Sunday, sunrise, doorway), the surprising twist on a cliché (to die like a dog), the invigorating mixture of darkness and drollery are a big part of what makes this book such a joy... Its an auspicious how-do-you-do to the world, and nearly every page of the novel displays the same bounce and animation... rapturous. * Wall Street Journal * Promotional Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. Review Text This book is rich and deep, mesmerizing and spectacular. At times I felt it opened a portal onto something grand and profound about love and blood and the ties that bind. Read it and you will feel what great literature can do : you will feel you are more vividly alive Review Quote This book is rich and deep, mesmerizing and spectacular. At times I felt it opened a portal onto something grand and profound about love and blood and the ties that bind. Read it and you will feel what great literature can do : you will feel you are more vividly alive Promotional "Headline" 2013s most talked about debut comes out in paperback Details ISBN0670919888 Author Taiye Selasi ISBN-10 0670919888 ISBN-13 9780670919888 Media Book Pages 336 DEWEY 813.6 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Format Paperback Language English UK Release Date 2014-01-02 Illustrator Tony Flowers Translator Michael A. Scarpitti Edited by Gnon Baba Birth 1969 Affiliation Research Scholar, Amal Jyothi Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Kerala, India Position UN Under-Secretary General and Rector Qualifications MD MPA Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-01-02 Audience General NZ Release Date 2014-02-17 AU Release Date 2014-02-17 Alternative 9780670919895 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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