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Faceless novel10/5/2023 Sub-Saharan Publishers/Schmetterling-Verl. In her adult life, she becomes distrustful and envious and causes a lot of trouble. She has to work hard for her parents and brothers and is unable to attend school regularly. The young protagonist, Kesewa, is illiterate. This is the first book that is completely set in Ghana. 2000: Verirrtes Herz ("Stray heart" no English edition).There are dialogues between a Ghanaian living in German and the German friends around her. Her second novel is a reflection about roots. 1996: Spinnweben ("Cobwebs" no English edition).Though the book deals with serious topics such as illegal immigration, illegitimate marriage and prostitution, there is never any bitter morality in it. The book is about a young woman, Mara, who follows her husband to Germany, not knowing that he has married a German in the meantime. ISBN 978-0-1.ĭarko's first novel is influenced by her impressions of Germany, observing the interaction between Germans and Ghanaian immigrants. 1995: Beyond the Horizon ( Der verkaufte Traum).Odamtten's book Broadening the Horizon: Critical Introductions to Amma Darko, in the 2001 doctoral thesis by Louise Allen Zak "Writing her way: a study of Ghanaian novelist Amma Darko", and in several academic journals. Her work has been discussed in Vincent O. Her most recent novels, Faceless and Not without flowers, were published in Ghana. Her first novel, Beyond the Horizon, was originally published in Germany. She also paints clear pictures of the exploitation of women through her works. Her novels illustrate everyday life in Ghana. During the 1980s, she lived and worked for some time in Germany. Then she worked for the Science and Technology Center in Kumasi. She studied in Kumasi, where she received her diploma in 1980. She was born in Koforidua, Ghana, and grew up in Accra. She had won The Golden Baobab Prize for one of her novels. A slow-paced but rewarding read.Ī copy of this book was provided by the publisher for review.Amma Darko (born 1956) is a Ghanaian novelist. For so many months she idealized the past and questioned the point of her present, but the closing of the novel has her considering multiple options for college and realizing that she’ll still be herself with or without the same relationships she had before her accident. Of all the things Maisie has worked so hard for, regaining her sense of excitement and possibility for the future is probably the most important one. The open-ended closing of this novel might just be my favorite thing about it. Faceless doesn’t have a lot of action, or too much drama, really – its strength is in letting readers watch Maisie find herself again, and the pace of the book is gradual, just like her recovery. It’s impossible for any of us to imagine what a tragedy like that would actually be like, but Sheinmel gives us a chance to hit a little closer to the truth than we might otherwise. Maisie is surrounded by a stand-out cast of supporting characters (my favorites are her boyfriend, Chirag, and her best friend, Serena) but the best aspect of the book is how thoroughly it explores Maisie’s emotions as she adjusts to her new face. Readers may be drawn to this novel out of curiosity for its unusual subject matter – most of us are only used to hearing about face transplants when they make the news every once and a while – but you’ll stay for Sheinmel’s excellent writing. She can’t help but ask herself…is it all worth it? But recovery after the surgery is so much harder than Maisie predicted not only does she have to deal with the physical healing of her body, she also has to take about twenty pills three times a day and go back to school, where everyone remembers how she used to be before her accident. Luckily (although Maisie won’t like it if you call her that – lucky girls don’t get their faces burned off), Maisie qualifies for a face transplant rather than having to face years of grafting surgery that may or may not work. Maisie’s burns are so bad that the tissue in her cheeks, nose, and chin actually died. Faceless by Alyssa Sheinmel chronicles sixteen-year-old Maisie’s journey to recovery after part of her face is destroyed in an electrical fire.
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