Ada's realm
Otoo, Sharon Dodua2023
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In a small village in West Africa, in what will one day become Ghana, Ada gives birth again, and again the baby does not live. As she grieves the loss of her child, Portuguese traders become the first white men to arrive in the village, an event that will bear terrible repercussions for Ada and her kin. Centuries later, Ada will become the mathematical genius Ada Lovelace; Ada, a prisoner forced into prostitution in a Nazi concentration camp; and Ada, a young, pregnant Ghanaian woman with a new British passport who arrives in Berlin in 2019 for a fresh start. Ada is not one woman but many and she is all women, she revolves in orbits, looping from one century and from one place to the next. And so, she experiences the hardship but also the joy of womanhood: she is a victim, she offers resistance, and she fights for her independence.
Main title:
Ada's realm / Sharon Dodua Otoo ; translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi.
Author:
Otoo, Sharon Dodua, authorCho-Polizzi, Jon, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2023.©2023
Collation:
303 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
97815294190239781529419023
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
542782
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | OTOO | Available |