Let Us Descend

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<b>OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - Instant <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller </b><b>- Named one of the best books of 2023 by <i>The</i> <i>Washington Post</i>, <i>Vanity Fair</i>, <i>The</i> <i>Boston Globe</i>, <i>Time</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, and more.</b><br> <br><b>"Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving." -<i>Vogue</i> - "A novel of triumph." -<i>The Washington Post</i> - "Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly." -<i>People</i></b><br> <br><b>From "one of America's finest living writers" (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>) and "heir apparent to Toni Morrison" (<i>LitHub</i>)-comes a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War that's destined to become a classic.</b><br><br><i>Let Us Descend</i> describes 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. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is "[t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours" (NPR).<br> <br>Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide. 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 Annis leads readers through the descent, hers is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.<br> <br>From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this "[s]earing and lyrical...raw, transcendent, and ultimately hopeful" (<i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i>) novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land-the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. <i>Let Us Descend</i> is Jesmyn Ward's most magnific

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781668037782

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

210 x 139 x 21 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Simon + Schuster LLC