![]() ![]() “I could never have predicted this when I was 20 and standing in that castle.” The author is referring to Cape Coast Castle, the fortress from which much of Ghana’s transatlantic slave trade was orchestrated during the colonial era. It’s a bright winter’s morning at Penguin HQ in London and the author sips a cup of tea while reflecting upon the past six months of promotion and praise for Homegoing. “The reception has been totally remarkable and beyond my wildest dreams,” Gyasi says with an earnest smile. Now, as Homegoing is published in Europe, Gyasi has just been named among Forbes’ 30 Unlist of brightest young innovators – and deservedly so. The Wall Street Journal meanwhile, described the book’s structure as ‘dazzling… a kind of time-elapsed photo of black lives in America and in the motherland’. Vogue wrote ‘No novel has better illustrated the way in which racism has become institutionalised in this country’. Having reportedly received a $1 million advance for her debut novel, Homegoing, it received rapturous reviews upon its summer release in the US and became a New York Times best seller. ![]() ![]() There's no doubt that 2016 was a vintage year for Yaa Gyasi. ![]()
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