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Dette er Babylon

Igennem hele Safiya Sinclairs barndom er hendes far — en lunefuld reggaemusiker og militant tilhænger af en streng rastafarisekt — besat af hendes og hendes søstres renhed. Mest af alt frygter han truslen fra det, rastaerne kalder Babylon: den vestlige verdens ødelæggende og fordærvende indflydelse, som lurer lige uden for familiens havelåge.

For at holde Babylon på afstand opstiller han en lang række regler, pigerne skal overholde. De bliver tvunget til at gå i lange nederdele og få dreadlocks i håret, og med undtagelse af deres skolegang er hele deres tilværelse underlagt hans snærende bånd. For Safiya er det en opvækst præget af kontrol, rodløshed, fattigdom og vold, men også morens varme og kærlighed. Selvom hun er loyal over for sin mand, giver hun sin datter den ene gave, der kan befri hende fra en fremtid som rastakvinde: en verden af poesi, viden og uddannelse.

Efterhånden som Safiya bliver ældre, udvikler hun langsomt sin egen stemme som digter og kvinde, og i takt med at stemmen bliver stærkere, tør hun endelig forsøge at vriste sig ud af sin fars greb.

DETTE ER BABYLON er Safiya Sinclairs barske beretning om den kultur, der både opfostrede hende og forsøgte at få hende til at tie, om tilgivelsens helende kraft og poesien, der blev hendes livline til verden uden for havelågen.


Author:

  • Safiya Sinclair

Narrator:

  • Helle Fagralid

Format:

  • Audiobook
  • E-book

Duration:

  • 15 h 37 min
  • 284 pages

Language:

Danish


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    Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of the memoir How to Say Babylon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a finalist for the Women’s Prize in Nonfiction, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Kirkus Prize. How to Say Babylon was one of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the year, a Washington Post Top 10 Book of 2023, a TIME magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2023, one of The Atlantic’s 10 Best Books of 2023, a Read with Jenna/TODAY show book club pick, and one of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2023. How to Say Babylon was also named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Vulture, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others, and was an ALA Notable Book of the Year. The audiobook of How to Say Babylon was named a Best Audiobook of the Year by AudioFile magazine. Sinclair is also the author of the poetry collection Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Addison Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Sinclair’s other honours include a Guggenheim fellowship, and fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the Civitella Rainieri Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Arizona State University.

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