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La Bellezza Delle Cose Fragili (2013)

by Taiye Selasi(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8806208020 (ISBN13: 9788806208028)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: The first half is super slow and confusing: introducing characters and family trees that quickly disappear, pages of internal dialogue from people we don't know yet, rapid changes in narrator and perspective.But, I'm really glad I stuck with this book. "Ghana Must Go" follows the Sai family, a mother and her four children, as they come together for their father's funeral years after he abandoned the family. Selasi's portrayal of family dynamics is incredibly real: internalized pressure to maintain appearances, honor and duty, jealousy, complex sibling relationships. Altogether, "Ghana Must Go" is about belonging: to a family, to a culture, to a place. It's not a perfect book, but it's worth sticking with.
review 2: At the end of the day the book should not be a... morenything extraordinary - a family story, nothing more. And yet, it was quite extraordinary thanks to the way the story was said. The narrative is excellent, deep and disturbing, sentences carefully crafted and words hand-picked. Not always an easy read, with loads of digressions, detours and questions not always answered immediately. At the end however this a-chronological, non-linear narrative, through patchwork of the stories of individual family members, their secrets, their sorrows, forms an integral compelling story, a bit shocking and disturbing for an ignorant on Africa's realities as I am. Taiye's observations of humans and interactions between them are painfully acute and have filled my notebook with some brilliant quotes. less

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