3125736The God Childhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-god-child-9781408882405/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2302693/0e4dc3a2-3d2f-46f8-9c92-e7e0fdc6718a.jpg?v=638426112627470000306373MXNBloomsbury PublishingInStock/Ebooks/Engrossing and memorable Ben OkriMeditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented Taiye SelasiI read this novel very slowly. I didnt want to miss anything ... It is a rich, beautiful book and when I got to the end, I wanted to start again Chibundu OnuzoMaya grows up in Germany knowing that her parents are different: from one another, and from the rest of the world. Her reserved, studious father is distant; and her beautiful, volatile mother is a whirlwind, with a penchant for lavish shopping sprees and a mesmerising power for spinning stories of the familys former glory of what was had, and what was lost.And then Kojo arrives one Christmas, like an annunciation: Mayas cousin, and her mothers godson. Kojo has a way with words a way of talking about Ghana, and empire, and what happens when a countrys treasures are spirited away by colonialists. For the first time, Maya has someone who can help her understand why exile has made her parents the way they are. But then Maya and Kojo are separated, shuttled off to school in England, where they come face to face with the maddening rituals of Empire.Returning to Ghana as a young woman, Maya is reunited with her powerful but increasingly troubled cousin. Her homecoming will set off an exorcism of their family and countrys strangest, darkest demons. 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But then Maya and Kojo are separated, shuttled off to school in England, where they come face to face with the maddening rituals of Empire.Returning to Ghana as a young woman, Maya is reunited with her powerful but increasingly troubled cousin. Her homecoming will set off an exorcism of their family and countrys strangest, darkest demons. It is in this destructions wake that Maya realises her own purpose: to tell the story of her mother, her cousin, their land and their loss, on her own terms, in her own voice.(*_*)9781408882405_Engrossing and memorable Ben OkriMeditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented Taiye SelasiI read this novel very slowly. I didnt want to miss anything ... It is a rich, beautiful book and when I got to the end, I wanted to start again Chibundu OnuzoMaya grows up in Germany knowing that her parents are different: from one another, and from the rest of the world. Her reserved, studious father is distant; and her beautiful, volatile mother is a whirlwind, with a penchant for lavish shopping sprees and a mesmerising power for spinning stories of the familys former glory of what was had, and what was lost.And then Kojo arrives one Christmas, like an annunciation: Mayas cousin, and her mothers godson. Kojo has a way with words a way of talking about Ghana, and empire, and what happens when a countrys treasures are spirited away by colonialists. For the first time, Maya has someone who can help her understand why exile has made her parents the way they are. But then Maya and Kojo are separated, shuttled off to school in England, where they come face to face with the maddening rituals of Empire.Returning to Ghana as a young woman, Maya is reunited with her powerful but increasingly troubled cousin. Her homecoming will set off an exorcism of their family and countrys strangest, darkest demons. It is in this destructions wake that Maya realises her own purpose: to tell the story of her mother, her cousin, their land and their loss, on her own terms, in her own voice....9781408882405_Bloomsbury Publishinglibro_electonico_5b3e51a0-2269-3579-a3fc-0a5121b20e93_9781408882405;9781408882405_9781408882405Nana OforiattaInglésMéxico2019-11-14T00:00:00+00:00Bloomsbury Publishing