Aoudat Al Rouh | Ya Jesse

It's eighteenth century Ghana: two sisters born in two different villages without knowing each other. One of them marries a white slave trader and lives comfortably in the rooms of the opulent Cape Coast castle. While the other is captured during a raid on her village to be imprisoned in the basement of the palace itself with others to be sold as slaves to the English. Return of the Soul follows two parallel paths of these two sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the Jazz Age of Harlem, mapping out a complete map of destinies like never before.
Winner of the PEN International Hemingway Award

One of the best novels of the year on the New York Times, Oprah Reading Club, Time, Esquire, Guardian, and Washington Post lists.