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Washington Black
The Booker-shortlisted International Bestseller
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
141 kr
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NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING TOM ELLIS, RUPERT GRAVES AND STERLING K. BROWN* SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2018 * FINALIST FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE ROGERS WRITERS TRUST FICTION PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020 * WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE *'A masterpiece' ATTICA LOCKE'Strong, beautiful and beguiling' OBSERVER'Destined to become a future classic ... that rare book that should appeal to every kind of reader' GUARDIANWhen two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven-year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of them. The eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist, whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him.Titch's idealistic plans are soon shattered and Washington finds himself in mortal danger. They escape together, but then Titch disappears and Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible.Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is an extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again.
Washington Black
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
229 kr
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George Washington Black, eller "Wash", är en elvaårig slav på en sockerplantage på Barbados. När hans brutale Master utser honom till sin bror Christophers tjänare blir han livrädd. Men den excentriske Christopher Wilde visar sig vara en upptäcktsresande, uppfinnare och motståndare till slaveriet. Snart initieras Wash in i en värld där ett flygande skepp kan bära en man över himlen, där till och med en pojke född i kedjor kan omfamna ett liv i värdighet och mening – och där två människor, åtskilda av en omöjlig klyfta, kan börja se varandra som människor. Men när en man dödas och en belöning placeras på Washs huvud måste Christopher och Wash överge allt. De flyr längs Amerikas östkust, och hamnar slutligen till en avlägsen utpost i Arktis. Det som för samman Christopher och Wash kommer att slita isär dem och driva Wash ännu längre över hela världen i jakten på sitt sanna jag.
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
309 kr
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Second Life of Samuel Tyne
AvEsi Edugyan
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
208 kr
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Haunting and atmospheric, this debut novel portrays the heartbreak, hardship and moments of surprising grace in the life of a man struggling to realize his destiny.A young man of astonishing promise when he emigrated from Ghana in 1955, Samuel Tyne was determined to accomplish great things. Fifteen long years later, he’s an insignificant government employee who hates his job when he unexpectedly inherits his uncle’s crumbling mansion in Aster, Alberta. Despite his wife’s resistance and the sullen complaints of his thirteen-year-old twin daughters, Samuel quits his job and moves his family to the town. For here, he believes, is that fabled second chance, and he is determined not to fail again.At first, Aster seems perfect — to Samuel, the formerly all-black town represents the return to a communal, idyllic way of life. But he soon discovers the town’s problems: a history of in-fighting, a strict town council and a series of mysterious fires that put all the townsfolk on edge. When his daughters cease speaking and refuse to explain their increasingly strange behaviour, Samuel turns more and more to the refuge of his electronics shop.As his ambitions intensify, the life he has struggled so hard to improve begins to disintegrate around him, and a dark current of menace in the town is turned upon the Tyne family.
Washington Black (Man Booker Prize Finalist)
A novel
AvEsi Edugyan
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
118 kr
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From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master''s eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash''s head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life, one which will propel him further across the globe. From the sultry cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, Washington Black tells a story of friendship and betrayal, love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again--and asks the question, what is true freedom?
Washington Black
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
148 kr
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A dazzling adventure story about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world. George Washington Black, or Wash, an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his masters brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaningand where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Washs head, Christopher and Wash must abandon everything. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic. What brings Christopher and Wash together will tear them apart, propelling Wash even further across the globe in search of his true self. From the blistering cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest aquariums of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black tells a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again, and asks the question, What is true freedom?
Journey Prize Stories 33
The Best of Canada's New Black Writers
AvDavid Chariandy,Esi Edugyanm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
193 kr
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Dreaming of Elsewhere
Observations on Home
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
254 kr
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Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are. Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and fiction, objective and subjective in an effort to find out if one can belong to more than one place, if home is just a place or if it can be an idea, a person, a memory, or a dream. How "home" changes, how it changes us, and how every farewell carries the promise of a return. Readers of Canadian literature, armchair travellers, and all citizens of the global village will enjoy her explorations and reflections, as we follow her from Ghana to Germany, from Toronto to Budapest, from Paris to New York.
Half-Blood Blues
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
328 kr
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Half-Blood Blues
A Novel
AvEsi Edugyan
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2012
429 kr
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Winner of the Scotiabank Giller PrizeMan Booker Prize Finalist 2011An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the Governor General''s Literary Award for FictionBerlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café. He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black. Berlin, 1952. Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film''s premier, Sid''s role in Falk''s fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey. From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs and treacheries that led to Falk''s incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Esi Edugyan''s Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.
Washington Black
A novel
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Engelska, 1900
300 kr
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From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world. George Washington Black, or Wash, an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his masters brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaningand where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Washs head, Christopher and Wash must abandon everything. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic. What brings Christopher and Wash together will tear them apart, propelling Wash even further across the globe in search of his true self. From the blistering cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest aquariums of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black tells a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again, and asks the question, What is true freedom?
Out of The Sun
Essays at the Crossroads of Race
AvEsi Edugyan
E-bok
Engelska, 2022
121 kr
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History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings?As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan''s commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. In five wide-ranging essays, written with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the background, Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences. She delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives. She explores and celebrates the legacy of Afrofuturism, the complex and problematic practice of racial passing, the place of ghosts and haunting in the imagination, and the fascinating relationship between Africa and Asia dating back to the 6th Century.With calm, piercing intelligence, Edugyan asks difficult questions about how we reckon with the past and imagine the future.
Half Blood Blues
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
153 kr
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Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you.The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black. Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there's more to the journey than he thought when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero's fate was settled. In Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don't tell your story, someone else might tell it for you. And they just might tell it wrong ...
Out of The Sun
Essays at the Crossroads of Race
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
123 kr
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History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings?As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. In five wide-ranging essays, written with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the background, Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences. She delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives. She explores and celebrates the legacy of Afrofuturism, the complex and problematic practice of racial passing, the place of ghosts and haunting in the imagination, and the fascinating relationship between Africa and Asia dating back to the 6th Century.With calm, piercing intelligence, Edugyan asks difficult questions about how we reckon with the past and imagine the future.
Second Life of Samuel Tyne
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
155 kr
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Samuel Tyne always believed he was destined for greatness. Emigrating to Canada from Ghana in the 1960'S was the first step on this path, but fifteen years later his grand plans have stalled. He now has a wife Maud, twin thirteen year old daughters Chloe and Yvette, and a mind-numbing job. But then he is thrown a life line. His uncle Jacob dies, leaving him a grand but crumbling house in the town of Aster, and Samuel persuades his reluctant family to seize this chance for a new beginning. At first Aster seems perfect, but soon the town's faultlines are revealed, and the family begins to feel the strain. Samuel opens an electrical shop, but the business falters as he falls victim to his own outlandish ambitions, trying to build computers when all the townspeople want is lightbulbs and radios. His wife is unhappy, and as for his daughters - they are drifting into a private world of two, their behaviour becoming ever more sinister and disturbing to everyone around them. When their school friend Ama comes to stay and nearly drowns in mysterious circumstances, and then a series of fires around the town go unexplained, Samuel and Maud must face up to the secrets within their own family, secrets that threaten to completely tear apart the life they have built.
Half Blood Blues
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011
AvEsi Edugyan
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
119 kr
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Chip told us not to go out. Said, don''t you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you.The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black. Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero''s bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there''s more to the journey than he thought when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero''s fate was settled. In Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don''t tell your story, someone else might tell it for you. And they just might tell it wrong ...
Second Life of Samuel Tyne
AvEsi Edugyan
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
144 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Samuel Tyne always believed he was destined for greatness. Emigrating to Canada from Ghana in the 1960''S was the first step on this path, but fifteen years later his grand plans have stalled. He now has a wife Maud, twin thirteen year old daughters Chloe and Yvette, and a mind-numbing job. But then he is thrown a life line. His uncle Jacob dies, leaving him a grand but crumbling house in the town of Aster, and Samuel persuades his reluctant family to seize this chance for a new beginning. At first Aster seems perfect, but soon the town''s faultlines are revealed, and the family begins to feel the strain. Samuel opens an electrical shop, but the business falters as he falls victim to his own outlandish ambitions, trying to build computers when all the townspeople want is lightbulbs and radios. His wife is unhappy, and as for his daughters - they are drifting into a private world of two, their behaviour becoming ever more sinister and disturbing to everyone around them. When their school friend Ama comes to stay and nearly drowns in mysterious circumstances, and then a series of fires around the town go unexplained, Samuel and Maud must face up to the secrets within their own family, secrets that threaten to completely tear apart the life they have built.
Washington Black
The Booker-shortlisted International Bestseller
AvEsi Edugyan
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
127 kr
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NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING TOM ELLIS, RUPERT GRAVES AND STERLING K. BROWN* SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2018 * FINALIST FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE ROGERS WRITERS TRUST FICTION PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020 * WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE *''A masterpiece'' ATTICA LOCKE''Strong, beautiful and beguiling'' OBSERVER''Destined to become a future classic ... that rare book that should appeal to every kind of reader'' GUARDIANWhen two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven-year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of them. The eccentric Christopher ''Titch'' Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist, whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him.Titch''s idealistic plans are soon shattered and Washington finds himself in mortal danger. They escape together, but then Titch disappears and Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible.Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is an extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again.
Washington Black
AvEsi Edugyan
Häftad, Tyska
142 kr
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Halvblodsblues
AvEsi Edugyan
Pocket, Svenska, 2014
3,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
89 kr
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Berlin 1939. Barndomsvännerna Sid och Chip har tagit sig från Baltimores bakgator till Berlins rökiga barer för att lira jazz och leva gott. Men sedan nazisterna kom till makten är deras musik bannlyst. Deras tillvaro kompliceras ytterligare av att bandets briljante unge trumpetare Hiero är tysk och svart.Bandet flyr till Paris för att spela in en skiva, men en kväll grips Hiero på ett kafé av Gestapo och ingen hör av honom igen.Halvblodsblues är en berättelse om mänsklig styrka och svaghet, om vänskap och musikens frigörande kraft. Romanen blev nominerad till det prestigefyllda Bookerpriset 2011 som Orangepriset 2012. "En mycket läsvärd skildring av en mindre känd del av andra världskrigets historia. Men kanske ännu mer en berättelse om myt och sanning och om att tvingas konfrontera sina största misstag i slutet av livet."Anina Rabe, Svenska Dagbladet
Washington Black
AvEsi Edugyan
Ljudbok
Svenska, 2025
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(6)
99 kr
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George Washington Black, eller "Wash", är en elvaårig slav på en sockerplantage på Barbados. När hans brutale Master utser honom till sin bror Christophers tjänare blir han livrädd. Men den excentriske Christopher Wilde visar sig vara en upptäcktsresande, uppfinnare och motståndare till slaveriet. Snart initieras Wash in i en värld där ett flygande skepp kan bära en man över himlen, där till och med en pojke född i kedjor kan omfamna ett liv i värdighet och mening – och där två människor, åtskilda av en omöjlig klyfta, kan börja se varandra som människor. Men när en man dödas och en belöning placeras på Washs huvud måste Christopher och Wash överge allt. De flyr längs Amerikas östkust, och hamnar slutligen till en avlägsen utpost i Arktis. Det som för samman Christopher och Wash kommer att slita isär dem och driva Wash ännu längre över hela världen i jakten på sitt sanna jag.

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Esi Edugyan – författare

Washington Black

Washington Black

The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

Second Life of Samuel Tyne

Washington Black (Man Booker Prize Finalist)

Washington Black

Journey Prize Stories 33

Dreaming of Elsewhere

Half-Blood Blues

Half-Blood Blues

Washington Black

Out of The Sun

Half Blood Blues

Out of The Sun

Second Life of Samuel Tyne

Half Blood Blues

Second Life of Samuel Tyne

Washington Black

Washington Black

Halvblodsblues

Washington Black

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