Dreaming of Elsewhere - Observations on Home

Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are. Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and fiction, objective and subjective in an effort to find out if one can belong to more than one place, if home is just a place or if it can be an idea, a person, a memory, or a dream. How "home" changes, how it changes us, and how every farewell carries the promise of a return. Readers of Canadian literature, armchair travellers, and all citizens of the global village will enjoy her explorations and reflections, as we follow her from Ghana to Germany, from Toronto to Budapest, from Paris to New York.

About the author

Esi Edugyan has won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for Fiction twice, for her novels Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black. She has twice been a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and has been shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, among others. Edugyan's debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was published internationally to critical acclaim. She has held fellowships in the US, Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain, and Belgium. Edugyan lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Product details

• Authors: Esi Edugyan
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2014
• EAN: 9780888648211
• ISBN: 978-0-88864-821-1
• No. of pages: 56
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 229 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 100 g
• Series: Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series; Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series; CLC Kreisel Lecture Series; CLC Kreisel Lecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic