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"Set to be one of the best books of 2023" GQ Magazine
"Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic" MUSA OKWONGA
"An impressive and highly original work, brimming over with energy" TLS
WHERE IS ADA?
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.
WHEN IS ADA?
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.
WHO IS ADA?
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.
This long-awaited debut from Sharon Dodua Otoo paints an astonishing picture of femininity, resilience and struggle with deep empathy and humour, with vivid language and infinite imagination.
"Sharon Dodua Otoo's writing defies expectations. Ada's Realm pushes boundaries in terms of language, form, character and time, challenging perceptions of what it means to be African, an African woman, in both historical and contemporary terms. More power to her pen!" MARGARET BUSBY
"Thrillingly, astonishingly original." R. O. KWON
"A work of fierce imagination" NII AYIKWEI PARKES
"A rule-shattering novel" Kirkus Reviews
Translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi
Review
Thrillingly, astonishingly original. You will not have read anything quite like this before. -- R. O. Kwon - author of THE INCENDIARIES
It's always exciting to discover new talent in the global literary arena, and Sharon Dodua Otoo's writing defies expectations. Ada's Realm pushes boundaries in terms of language, form, character and time, challenging perceptions of what it means to be African, an African woman, in both historical and contemporary terms. More power to her pen! -- Margaret Busby - editor of NEW DAUGHTERS OF AFRICA
A work of fierce imagination, by turns visceral, measured and experimental. -- Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Otoo's captivating use of language is the thread that ties these varying yet overlapping tales together . . . An impressive and highly original work, brimming over with energy. -- Jen Calleja - Times Literary Supplement
Its boldness and ambition leave an indelible imprint . . . A rule-shattering novel about the presentness of the past. - Kirkus Reviews
[Otoo] finds a form that uses the possibilities of storytelling and the joy of experimentation to open up space for her characters. -- Sabine Rohlf - Berliner Zeitung
A singular voice in contemporary German-language literature -- Andreas Busche - Tagesspiegel
Otoo blasts established narrative boundaries. - eigermonchjungfrau.blog
A absolutely astonishing story -- Frankfurter Allgemeine - Andreas Platthaus
Otoo's play with perspectives is an ode to her narrative command over the inanimate world, which is condemned to a constant, powerless witnessing of world events - Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Book Description
About the Author
Born in London in 1972 to Ghanaian parents, SHARON DODUA OTOO is an political activist and novelist living in Berlin. After having published several newspaper articles and two novellas in English, she wrote a short story in German which was later awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2016), one of Germany's most renowned literary awards. She is politically active with several civil rights organisations, including the Initiative Black People in Germany (ISD), a Black queer feminist organisation called ADEFRA, and Phoenix.
Ada's Realm is her first novel.
JON CHO-POLIZZI is a literary translation and Assistant Professor of German at the University of Michigan. His translations have appeared in the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Maxim Gorky Theatre, taz and Der Spiegel, as well as in numerous anthologies. He lives and works between Ann Arbor, Northern California and Berlin.
Adas Realm
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- ISBN: 9781529419023
- Author: Sharon Dodua Otoo
- Publisher: Maclehose
- Pages: 320
- Format: Paperback
Book Description
"Set to be one of the best books of 2023" GQ Magazine
"Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic" MUSA OKWONGA
"An impressive and highly original work, brimming over with energy" TLS
WHERE IS ADA?
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.
WHEN IS ADA?
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.
WHO IS ADA?
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.
This long-awaited debut from Sharon Dodua Otoo paints an astonishing picture of femininity, resilience and struggle with deep empathy and humour, with vivid language and infinite imagination.
"Sharon Dodua Otoo's writing defies expectations. Ada's Realm pushes boundaries in terms of language, form, character and time, challenging perceptions of what it means to be African, an African woman, in both historical and contemporary terms. More power to her pen!" MARGARET BUSBY
"Thrillingly, astonishingly original." R. O. KWON
"A work of fierce imagination" NII AYIKWEI PARKES
"A rule-shattering novel" Kirkus Reviews
Translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi
Review
Thrillingly, astonishingly original. You will not have read anything quite like this before. -- R. O. Kwon - author of THE INCENDIARIES
It's always exciting to discover new talent in the global literary arena, and Sharon Dodua Otoo's writing defies expectations. Ada's Realm pushes boundaries in terms of language, form, character and time, challenging perceptions of what it means to be African, an African woman, in both historical and contemporary terms. More power to her pen! -- Margaret Busby - editor of NEW DAUGHTERS OF AFRICA
A work of fierce imagination, by turns visceral, measured and experimental. -- Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Otoo's captivating use of language is the thread that ties these varying yet overlapping tales together . . . An impressive and highly original work, brimming over with energy. -- Jen Calleja - Times Literary Supplement
Its boldness and ambition leave an indelible imprint . . . A rule-shattering novel about the presentness of the past. - Kirkus Reviews
[Otoo] finds a form that uses the possibilities of storytelling and the joy of experimentation to open up space for her characters. -- Sabine Rohlf - Berliner Zeitung
A singular voice in contemporary German-language literature -- Andreas Busche - Tagesspiegel
Otoo blasts established narrative boundaries. - eigermonchjungfrau.blog
A absolutely astonishing story -- Frankfurter Allgemeine - Andreas Platthaus
Otoo's play with perspectives is an ode to her narrative command over the inanimate world, which is condemned to a constant, powerless witnessing of world events - Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Book Description
About the Author
Born in London in 1972 to Ghanaian parents, SHARON DODUA OTOO is an political activist and novelist living in Berlin. After having published several newspaper articles and two novellas in English, she wrote a short story in German which was later awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2016), one of Germany's most renowned literary awards. She is politically active with several civil rights organisations, including the Initiative Black People in Germany (ISD), a Black queer feminist organisation called ADEFRA, and Phoenix.
Ada's Realm is her first novel.
JON CHO-POLIZZI is a literary translation and Assistant Professor of German at the University of Michigan. His translations have appeared in the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Maxim Gorky Theatre, taz and Der Spiegel, as well as in numerous anthologies. He lives and works between Ann Arbor, Northern California and Berlin.
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