| Description |
338 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from her husband. A woman named Ada, imprisoned in a concentration camp at Mittelbau-Dora in 1945, will survive one more day in enforced prostitution. 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 purpose. As their interwoven narratives converge on a modern day Ada, a young Ghanaian 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Women -- Fiction.
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Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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Self-acceptance in women -- Fiction.
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Autonomy (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
Cho-Polizzi, Jon, translator.
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| Added Title |
Adas Raum. English.
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| ISBN |
9780593539798 (hardcover) |
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