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Transcendent Kingdom de Yaa Gyasi

Transcendent Kingdom

Autor Yaa Gyasi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2021

Atmosfera din Transcendent Kingdom ne trimite cu gândul la Chemistry, deși rigoarea științifică a protagonistei este aici dublată de o dimensiune spirituală și de trauma profundă a imigrației. În timp ce în Chemistry observăm o recalibrare a vieții academice, în acest roman descoperim o încercare aproape disperată de a folosi știința ca scut împotriva dezintegrării familiale. Considerăm că Yaa Gyasi reușește o schimbare de perspectivă fascinantă față de debutul său, Homegoing. Dacă în primul roman ea urmărea destinele a generații întregi pe două continente, aici restrânge cadrul, oferindu-ne o analiză microscopică, intimă, a unei singure familii de imigranți din Ghana stabiliți în Alabama. Reținem vocea lui Gifty, o cercetătoare în neuroștiințe la Stanford, care studiază circuitele neuronale ale adicției pe șoareci, încercând să înțeleagă, de fapt, supradoza care i-a ucis fratele și depresia care i-a imobilizat mama. Tonul este unul reflexiv, pendulând între precizia laboratorului și incertitudinea credinței religioase în care a fost crescută. Este o proză sobră, lipsită de artificii inutile, care reușește să pună în dialog biologia moleculară cu teologia evanghelică, fără a oferi răspunsuri facile. Transcendent Kingdom nu este doar o cronică a crizei opioidelor în America modernă, ci o meditație profundă despre cât de mult din trecutul nostru colectiv rămâne stocat în sinapse și în suflet.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781984899767
ISBN-10: 1984899767
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Vintage

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza contemporană densă, axată pe psihologie și dinamică familială. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei interesați de intersecția dintre știință și credință, oferind o perspectivă onestă asupra experienței imigranților de prima generație. Veți câștiga o înțelegere empatică a adicției și a doliului, filtrată printr-o minte analitică de cercetător.

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Yaa Gyasi este o scriitoare ganao-americană care s-a impus rapid ca una dintre cele mai importante voci ale literaturii contemporane. Născută în Ghana și crescută în Alabama, ea folosește propria experiență biculturală pentru a explora teme precum moștenirea istorică și identitatea. Debutul său, Homegoing (2016), a fost un succes internațional, fiind adaptat inclusiv în serii educaționale precum Penguin Readers Level 7: Homegoing (ELT Graded Reader). Gyasi este recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a îmbina cercetarea riguroasă cu o sensibilitate lirică, fiind distinsă cu premii prestigioase precum John Leonard Prize.

Descriere scurtă

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERFinalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZEYaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

Notă biografică

Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana, and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her first novel, Homegoing, was a Sunday Times bestseller, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2017 Yaa Gyasi was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists and in 2019 the BBC selected her debut as one of the 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. Her second book, Transcendent Kingdom, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and is a New York Times bestseller.

Recenzii

'Yaa's depiction of these illnesses; substance addiction and depression and the family's deep-rooted tangled traumas, is skilful . . .Transcendent Kingdomis a story of love, loss and redemption, and holds a mirror up to one version of the first-generation immigrant experience that will sadly seem familiar to many of us
Transcendent Kingdom is a novel for all times
Absolutely transcendent. A gorgeously woven narrative . . . not a word or idea out of place. I am quite angry this is so good
Transcendent Kingdom is a quietly magnificent novel - vivid, touching and beautifully written, and also unafraid to be, and to remain, really very sad.
Her equally outstanding second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, smaller in scale, is another graceful exploration of trauma reverberating through a family...introspective and intimate
This novel is an unflinching account of loss, but it is also a moving tribute to the ability of the human spirit to endure such tragedies
Gyasi's novel is a thoughtful analysis of a pressing social problem
Among other things [Transcendent Kingdom] is a sharp reckoning with the tensions between race, science and religion...its scope is pared back, its register intimate - not many writers can switch style like this
A powerful portrayal of love and faith that reminds us how our parents' actions can ripple through generations
[A] mightily enjoyable novel
Perhaps neither science nor religion alone could capture transcendence, but Gyasi has proved, once again, that a novel can
A book of blazing brilliance . . . A double helix of wisdom and rage twists through the quiet lines of this novel. Yaa Gyasi is one of the most enlightening novelists writing today
A compelling look at a woman's struggle to move on from the devastating effects of her family falling apart in front of her eyes
The must-read book of the year so far
A powerful, wholly unsentimental novel about family love, loss, belonging and belief that is more focused but just as daring as its predecessor, and to my mind even more successful
Gyasi's second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, is a very different book, and, I think, a better one - contemporary, personal, acutely focused on a single family, and intensely felt
Exquisitely written with a lightness of touch despite its difficult themes; this novel is a triumph
Raw, powerful storytelling that tackles race, religion, addiction and grief in a thoughtful way
With deft agility and undeniable artistry, Gyasi's latest is an eloquent examination of resilient survival
The Ghanaian-American has become a firm literary favour...Transcendent Kingdom is sure to cement her spot further
Meticulous, psychologically complex ... At once a vivid evocation of the immigrant experience and a sharp delineation of an individual's inner struggle, the novel brilliantly succeeds on both counts

Transcendent Kingdom is quiet in the way a wise soul will sit in the corner, clear their throat and when they speak, everyone listens...Transcendent Kingdom is a book always asking this question: how did we get here?
The range Gyasi displays in just two books is staggering
Remarkable, a devastating account of America . . . explores horror without ever losing sight of humanity or hope
A stirringly gifted writer. It's impossible not to admire the ambition and scope of Homegoing
If you want to know why the world is this way, try this book for starters
I need a book like this to remember what is possible
Beautifully written . . . a raw look at the personal destruction caused by the opioid crisis
A poignant story of family love, loss and ambition
Yaa Gyasi's writing is shining even as the tangled traumas of the past come to the surface

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021

**From the bestselling author of Homegoing**
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As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away.

Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America.

Transcendent Kingdom is a searing story story of love, loss and redemption, and the myriad ways we try to rebuild our lives from the rubble of our collective pasts.
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'Absolutely transcendent. A gorgeously woven narrative . . . not a word or idea out of place' Roxane Gay

'A piercing story of faith, science and the opioid crisis . . . There's bravery as well as beauty here' Observer