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Let Us Descend: An Oprah's Book Club Pick de Jesmyn Ward

Let Us Descend: An Oprah's Book Club Pick

Autor Jesmyn Ward
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 oct 2023
* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK *'A spectacular achievement' ANTHONY DOERR'Extravagantly beautiful' DAILY MAIL'One of the greatest writers of all time' JACQUELINE WOODSON'Extraordinary' GUARDIAN'The best book I've read in years' LOUISE KENNEDY-----------------------The first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand.On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of her mother's resilience, comforted by stories of her African warrior grandmother. Everything she knows, she learned from her mother - how to fight, how to be strong, how to grow up in a world shrouded in darkness.When she is sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, Annis must venture onward through the rich but unforgiving landscapes of the American South alone: from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans, and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Searching for relief in memories of her mother, she opens herself to a world beyond her own, teeming with spirits of earth, water, history and myth. A reimagining of American slavery as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching, Let Us Descend offers a magnificent portrait of the strength of the human spirit and its ability to emerge from darkness into light. This is a story of beauty, love, rebirth and reclamation - a masterwork for the ages.Praise for Sing, Unburied, Sing'A must' Margaret Atwood'One of the most important writers in America today' Ann Patchett'Ward is a lyrical, visceral storyteller' Daily Mail'A searing, urgent read' Celeste Ng'Plays out like a grand epic . Staggering' Marlon James
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526666710
ISBN-10: 1526666715
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Ward is the only woman and the only person of colour ever to win the National Book Award twice. Her most recent novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017), was shortlisted for the Women's Prize, with fans including Barack Obama, Marlon James, Celeste Ng and Margaret Atwood.

Notă biografică

Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing, and is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction for both Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones. She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.

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I have read all of Jesmyn Ward's books and have been a fan of her writing for years. Let Us Descend is a vital work for our culture and I'm so excited to have her newest offering as part of our Book Club
An extraordinary novel ... As in all of Ward's novels, the writing is both lyrical and sharply controlled
A poetic book about slavery . Ward's writing is like a spirit that flits and flies ... While also going deep into the rich inner world that sustains [Annis]
This harrowing, extravagantly beautiful novel at times seems to hover halfway between the real world and the spirit one. A sublime work
Elegiac ... Let Us Descend is recounted with a lyrical economy
Ward's specificity about the horrors of that journey - the beatings, the rapes, the near drownings, the actual drownings - is brutal. But there is also beauty: she has a poet's ear and her repetition of phrases and conjunctions is hypnotic ... Just as Toni Morrison and Colson Whitehead used black spiritual traditions in their writing, so does Ward ... This skein of hope is what keeps one reading'
Jesmyn Ward is one of the greatest writers of all time. And Let Us Descend, once again, proves it
Exquisite, harrowing, elemental, transcendent and ultimately hopeful. The best book I've read in years. What a writer Jesmyn Ward is!
Ward resurrects an enslaved girl out of the lost folds of the antebellum South, twists magic through every raindrop, mushroom and stalk of sugarcane, and drops you into the middle of her harrowing, unendurable, magnificent song. This is a gripping, mythic, bone-pulverizing descent into the grim darkness of American slavery - and yet somehow this novel simultaneously leaves you in awe of the human capacity to not only endure, but to ascend back to the light. A spectacular achievement
A stunning achievement. Will grip you from the first word to the last
A visceral chronicle of one young woman's bondage ... This is a sensual book
A lush and harrowing journey through the American antebellum South ... Beautifully alive and luminous

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From Jesmyn Wardthe two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellowcomes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.

';';Let us descend,' the poet now began, ';and enter this blind world.'' Inferno, Dante Alighieri

Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.

Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother.

Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.

From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very landthe rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward's most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.