Sharon Dodua Otoo: Ada's Realm, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Ada's Realm
- Translation:
- Jon Cho-Polizzi
- Publisher:
- Quercus Publishing Plc, 04/2024
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529419047
- Item number:
- 11618629
- Volume:
- 303 Pages
- Weight:
- 220 g
- Format:
- 196 x 128 mm
- Thickness:
- 28 mm
- Release date:
- 11.4.2024
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
"Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic" MUSA OKWONGA
"A time-travelling wonder of a read" PATERSON JOSEPH
"A work of fierce imagination" NII AYIKWEI PARKES WHERE IS ADA?
In a small village in West Africa, in what will one day become Ghana, Ada gives birth again, and again the baby does not live. As she grieves the loss of her child, Portuguese traders become the first white men to arrive in the village, an event that will bear terrible repercussions for Ada and her kin.
WHEN IS ADA?
Centuries later, Ada will become the mathematical genius Ada Lovelace; Ada, a prisoner forced into prostitution in a Nazi concentration camp; and Ada, a young, pregnant Ghanaian woman with a new British passport who arrives in Berlin in 2019 for a fresh start.
WHO IS ADA?
Ada is not one woman, but many, and she is all women - she revolves in orbits, looping from one century and from one place to the next. And so, she experiences the hardship but also the joy of womanhood: she is a victim, she offers resistance, and she fights for her independence.
This long-awaited debut from Sharon Dodua Otoo paints an astonishing picture of femininity, resilience and struggle with deep empathy and humour, with vivid language and infinite imagination.
"An impressive and highly original work, brimming over with energy" TLS
"Ada's Realm pushes boundaries . . . More power to her pen!" MARGARET BUSBY
"Thrillingly, astonishingly original." R. O. KWON
"A rule-shattering novel" Kirkus Reviews
Translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi
Biography (Sharon Dodua Otoo)
Sharon Dodua Otoo (*1972 in London) ist Autorin und politische Aktivistin. Sie schreibt Prosa und Essays und ist Herausgeberin der englischsprachigen Buchreihe ›Witnessed‹ (edition assemblage). Ihre ersten Novellen ›die dinge, die ich denke, während ich höflich lächle‹ und ›Synchronicity‹ erschienen zuletzt 2017 beim S. Fischer Verlag. Mit dem Text ›Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin‹ gewann Otoo 2016 den Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis. 2020 hielt sie die Klagenfurter Rede zur Literatur ›Dürfen Schwarze Blumen Malen?‹, die im Verlag Heyn erschien. Politisch aktiv ist Otoo bei der Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland e.V. und Phoenix e.V. Sie lebt mit ihrer Familie in Berlin. Literaturpreise: Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2016
