Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade - Softcover

Herbstein, Manu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497636019 ISBN 13: 9781497636019

Publisher: Open Road Media, 2014

Synopsis

Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. Thrust into a foreign land, passed from owner to owner, stripped of her identity. This is the life of Nandzi, who was given the name Ama, a name strange to her and her tribal culture. A life of struggle and resignation, bondage and freedom, passion and indifference, intense love and remorseless hate. Though forced into desperation, Ama never lets her soul be consumed by fear. While the stories of individual slaves have been blurred into one mass, Ama’s story personifies the experience of eighteenth-century Africans in an unforgettable way. Her entrancing story of defiance and spiritual fire starts from the day she is brutally seized, raped, and enslaved, and ends with her breathing the pure air of freedom. Ama is a deeply engrossing and colorful novel, packed with violence, sex, and action. The resilience of her spirit will grip readers from the first page to the last of Manu Herbstein’s spellbinding novel.

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From the Publisher

COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE 2002 ANNOUNCES REGIONAL WINNERS

Atonement by Ian McEwan and The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer are among the books shortlisted for the 2002 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

Four international judging panels met to award the Best Book and Best First Book for their region - covering Africa, the Caribbean & Canada, Eurasia, and South East Asia & the South Pacific. These eight books are now shortlisted for the overall Best Book and Best First Book prizes. A distinguished pan-Commonwealth panel of judges will meet in Edinburgh in April to select the final winners for the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Regional winners for the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize include:

BEST FIRST BOOK

Africa: Manu Herbstein - Ama A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (South African)(e-reads, USA)

The Commonwealth Writers Prize, established in 1987, is sponsored by the Commonwealth Foundation and administered by Booktrust.

The final pan-Commonwealth judging panel will be made up of the Chairpersons of each regional jury and chaired by The Rt. Rev. Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh and current Chairman of Scottish Book Trust. The panel will meet in Edinburgh as part of a five-day programme hosted by Scottish Book Trust and the Commonwealth Foundation. The overall winners of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize will be announced on 24 April 2002.

From the Author

It has many primary and secondary texts dealing with the history of the times, peoples and societies (Konkomba, Dagomba, Asante, Fanti, Dutch, English, Portuguese), the Middle Passage, Capitalism and Slavery, Brazil in the late eighteenth century, African culture and religion in the Americas and resistance to slavery.

The site also considers contemporary issues which arise out of the experience of the Slave Trade, such as Racism and Reparations, the teaching of the Slave Trade in American schools and the debate over the extent of African participation in the Slave Trade.

The Web site should be a useful resource for readers who wish to test the authenticity of Ama’s story.

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1497636019
• ISBN 13: 9781497636019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472