Jeffrey Colvin Africaville recensie en informatie over de inhoud van deze debuutroman. Op 10 december 2019 verscheen bij Uitgeverij Amistad de familieroman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Jeffrey Colvin. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van deze roman aangekondigd.
Jeffrey Colvin Africaville Recensie en Informatie
Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op de pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van Africaville, geschreven door Jeffrey Colvin. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Jeffrey Colvin.
Africaville
- Schrijver: Jeffrey Colvin (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, familieroman, sociale roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Amistad
- Verschenen: 10 december 2019
- Omvang: 384 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Gebonden Boek
Flaptekst van de roman van Jeffrey Colvin
Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family—Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner—whose lives unfold against the tumultuous events of the twentieth century from the Great Depression of the 1930s, through the social protests of the 1960s to the economic upheavals in the 1980s.
A century earlier, Kath Ella’s ancestors established a new home in Nova Scotia. Like her ancestors, Kath Ella’s life is shaped by hardship—she struggles to conceive and to provide for her family during the long, bitter Canadian winters. She must also contend with the locals’ lingering suspicions about the dark-skinned “outsiders” who live in their midst.
Kath Ella’s fierce love for her son, Omar, cannot help her overcome the racial prejudices that linger in this remote, tight-knit place. As he grows up, the rebellious Omar refutes the past and decides to break from the family, threatening to upend all that Kath Ella and her people have tried to build. Over the decades, each successive generation drifts further from Africaville, yet they take a piece of this indelible place with them as they make their way to Montreal, Vermont, and beyond, to the deep South of America.
As it explores notions of identity, passing, cross-racial relationships, the importance of place, and the meaning of home, Africaville tells the larger story of the black experience in parts of Canada and the United States. Vibrant and lyrical, filled with colorful details, and told in a powerful, haunting voice, this extraordinary novel—as atmospheric and steeped in history as The Known World, Barracoon, The Underground Railroad, and The Twelve Tribes of Hattie—is a landmark work from a sure-to-be major literary talent.
