Let Us Descend

Resumen del libro

'Let us descend, and enter his blind world.' Dante's Inferno. Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land - the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward's most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.

Biografía del autor

esmyn Ward (1977, DeLisle, Mississipí) és una de les veus de la literatura nord-americana i afroamericana amb més projecció dels últims anys. Amb la seva última novel-la, Canteu, esperits, canteu, la primera traduïda al català, ha guanyat el National Book Award de ficció 2017, premi que ja va obtenir amb Salvage the Bones (2011), cosa que lx{0026} x02019;ha convertit en la primera dona x{0026} x02014;i fins al moment, lx{0026} x02019;únicax{0026} x02014; que rep el guardó en dues ocasions. Lx{0026} x02019;autora es va llicenciar en llengua anglesa i va decidir dedicar-se a lx{0026} x02019;escriptura després de la mort del seu germà, una experiència que relata al llibre Men we Reaped (2013), finalista del premi National Book Critics Circle dx{0026} x02019;autobiografia. La seva prosa retrata la difícil realitat de la comunitat negra i empobrida de Mississipí i ha estat comparada amb la dx{0026} x02019;autors com William Faulkner i Toni Morrison.