Ada's Room

A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women all fighting for survival. A woman in 15th century Ghana named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius based on the only child of Lord Byron, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from her husband. A woman named Ada, imprisoned in a camp brothel at Buchenwald in 1945, will survive one more day. Connected by an unknown but sentient spirit, and a bracelet of fertility beads that each Ada encounters at a pivotal moment in her life, these women share a name and a fight. ; As their interwoven narratives converge on a modern day Ada, a young Ghanian woman who finds herself pregnant, alone, in Berlin, searching for a home before her baby arrives, their shared spirit will find a way to help her break the vicious cycle of injustice. ; This novel is a feat of imagination and breaks down simplistic notions of history as a straight line; one woman’s experience matters to another’s 400 years later, on a different continent. In this deeply moving, at times mordantly funny, ultimately hopeful book, there is a connection between all those fighting for love, for family, for justice, for a home.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sharon Dodua Otoo, Jon Cho-Polizzi
• Con la collaborazione di: Jon Cho-Polizzi (Traduzione)
• Editore: Riverhead
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 28.03.2023
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780593539798
• ISBN: 978-0-593-53979-8
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14 x 21 x 2.1 cm
• Categorie: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people