Brave Music of a Distant Drum
Autor Manu Herbsteinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2011 – vârsta de la 16 până la 17 ani
In Brave Music of a Distant Drum, a blind old slave woman, Ama, summons her son to come and write down her story so that her granddaughter and her granddaughter's children can one day read it and know their history.
Ama's son, Kwame Zumbi - named Zacharias Williams by the white Christians who raised him - considers his mother an old pagan and has little interest in doing more than is necessary to fulfill his obligation to her. How he is changed by the acts of hearing and writing down the details of his mother's story is as powerful and important a story as Ama's.
The story of an African enslaved in Brazil, Ama's story is violent - it includes murder, rape, and betrayal - and yet is is also a story of hope, courage, determination and love.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780889954700
ISBN-10: 0889954704
Pagini: 175
Dimensiuni: 134 x 189 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Red Deer Press
ISBN-10: 0889954704
Pagini: 175
Dimensiuni: 134 x 189 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Red Deer Press
Notă biografică
Manu Herbstein is the author of Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade which won the 2002 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for best first book. He lives in Ghana.
Extras
I am blind. Knaggs' whip took out my right eye many years ago; and now my left eye too is only good for shedding tears. My hand can still hold a quill, but without guidance the marks it makes are mere scribbles. I have a story to tell. It lies within me, kicking like a child in the womb, a child whose time has come. If I had died last night, my story would by now be lying with me in my shallow grave; but I did not die last night and I will still tell my story...
I pray that Kwame will bring ink and paper with him as I asked. Then I will tell him the story of my life, from the beginning; and Tomba's, such of it as I know; and he will write it all down. And one day Nandzi Ama will read it; and her children too. Then they will know who their ancestors were and where they came from; and they will understand that the shame of their enslavement lies with the slave traders not with the enslaved.
I pray that Kwame will bring ink and paper with him as I asked. Then I will tell him the story of my life, from the beginning; and Tomba's, such of it as I know; and he will write it all down. And one day Nandzi Ama will read it; and her children too. Then they will know who their ancestors were and where they came from; and they will understand that the shame of their enslavement lies with the slave traders not with the enslaved.
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A blind old slave woman, Ama, summons her son to come and write down her story so that her granddaughter and her granddaughter's children can one day read it and know their history. Ama's son, Kwame Zumbi--named Zacharias Williams by the white Christians who raised him--considers his mother an old pagan and has little interest in doing more than is necessary to fulfill his obligation to her.