Ada's realm

Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945 | Fiktionale Darstellung

Zusammenfassung: 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

Object Details

• Alternative title: Adas Raum
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9781529419016 ; 9781529419023 ; 1529419026 ; 1529419018
• Dimensions: 23 cm
• Extent: 303 Seiten
• Language: Englisch

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Deutsche Literatur

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): London
• (who): MacLehose Press, Quercus
• (when): [2023]
• Creator: Otoo, Sharon Dodua
• Contributor: Cho-Polizzi, Jon

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/1327798948/04
• Rights: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 11.06.2025, 2:04 PM CEST