Taiye Selasi

Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, West Africa, New England.

A "buoyant" and "rapturous" debut novel ("The Wall Street Journal") about the transformative power of unconditional love Electric, exhilarating, and beautifully crafted, "Ghana Must Go" introduces the world to Taiye Selasi, a novelist of extraordinary talent. In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from Accra to Lagos to London to New York, it is at once a portrait of a modern family and an exploration of the importance of where we come from to who we are. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, Kweku Sai dies suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of his death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Moving with great elegance through time and place, "Ghana Must Go" charts their circuitous journey to one another and, along the way, teaches us that the truths we speak can heal the wounds we hide.

This is the story of a family -- of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together.It is the story of one family, the Sais, whose good life crumbles in an evening; a Ghanaian father, Kweku Sai, who becomes a highly respected surgeon in the US only to be disillusioned by a grotesque injustice; his Nigerian wife, Fola, the beautiful homemaker abandoned in his wake; their eldest son, Olu, determined to reconstruct the life his father should have had; their twins, seductive Taiwo and acclaimed artist Kehinde, both brilliant but scarred and flailing; their youngest, Sadie, jealously in love with her celebrity best friend. All of them sent reeling on their disparate paths into the world. Until, one day, tragedy spins the Sais in a new direction.This is the story of a family: torn apart by lies, reunited by grief. A family absolved, ultimately, by that bitter but most tenuous bond: familial love.Ghana Must Go interweaves the stories of the Sais in a rich and moving drama of separation and reunion, spanning generations and cultures from West Africa to New England, London, New York and back again. It is a debut novel of blazing originality and startling power by a writer of extraordinary gifts.

Es war das Buch des Jahres 2013, am meisten und am besten besprochen. Eine wahre Entdeckung: Sechs Menschen, eine Familie, uber Weltstadte und Kontinente zerstreut. In Afrika haben sie ihre Wurzeln und uberall auf der Welt ihr Leben: London, Accra, New York. Bis plotzlich der Vater in Afrika stirbt. Nach vielen Jahren sehen sie sich wieder und machen eine uberraschende Erfahrung. Endlich verstehen sie, dass die Dinge nicht einfach ohne Grund geschehen. So wurde noch kein Familienroman erzahlt.Taiye Selasi ist die neue internationale Stimme - jenseits von Afrika.

C’est l’histoire d’une famille, des ruptures et déchirements qui se produisent en son sein, et des efforts déployés par chacun pour œuvrer à la réconciliation. En l’espace d’une soirée, la vie serein

A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, West Africa, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. Now this broken family has a chance to heal - but can the Sais take it?Ghana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one familys fortunes and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members. With her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period. An astonishing debut Teju Cole, author of Open City

Una novela sobre el desconocido mundo de los «afropolitas», los hijos de los profesionales africanos que emigraron en las décadas de los sesenta y setenta, y que hoy conforman una comunidad de jóvene

Una novela sobre el desconocido mundo de los «afropolitas», los hijos de los profesionales africanos que emigraron en las décadas de los sesenta y setenta, y que hoy conforman una comunidad de jóvene