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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Door of No Returndi Kwame Alexander
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.  Law_Books600 | May 20, 2024 |   Basically, what has happened, happened. We can't turn back. Kofi lives in Africa in the 1800s. He has a good life. His older brother possesses an admiring self-confidence; his parents and grandfather are loving; he likes a girl; and, he has a best friend. He talks about the beat of the drums and life in the village with his people. He speaks of a treaty with the neighboring country. He's not allowed out at night, and it's not explained to him why. Life is nice. The wrestling match between the countries comes about and everything changes. The changes are what breaks the reader's heart and takes Kofi down a road that has changed history. (  ) acargile | Sep 6, 2023 | .....but this is almost better. Told in Kwame's novel in verse, we follow Kofi, a young African boy who is in love with a girl, torn between learning English and speaking in his native tongue, and focusing on besting his cousin in a swimming race. Kofi has always been told to avoid the river at sunset for danger lurks. One day, Kofi learns how true that statement is. Supposedly this is the first of a trilogy and to be honest, I am on the fence about that. You see, I am okay with ambivalent endings. Or endings that end somewhat on hope, you want more, but you don't want the storyline destroyed by pushing for me. Kofi's story This book definitely skews older middle grade, if not teen, to me. Due to the violence, the subject matter, I will recommend this to older readers. It's not an obvious, or even appropriate segway from The Crossover. That being said, it is glorious! I could not put it down. (  ) msgabbythelibrarian | Jun 11, 2023 | Definitely consult trigger warnings and read the synopsis carefully before suggesting to patrons/families. ( ) ACLopez6 | Feb 25, 2023 | ) Salsabrarian | Jan 5, 2023 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Premi e riconoscimentiElenchi di rilievo
Juvenile Fiction.
Juvenile Literature.
Historical Fiction.
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (4.15)
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Trigger warnings: Death and murder of a brother and another person by suicide in a body of water, near-death experiences, shipwreck, blood, grief and loss depiction, caning, physical assault and injury, slavery, colonisation
Score: Nine out of ten.
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander circled my recommendations for months until the library finally purchased it and I soon picked it up. I glanced at the blurb, making it seem heavy, yet intriguing, and the ratings were high. I don't see poetry novels every day, and it was another hit when I closed the final page.
It starts with Kofi Offin living in the Asante Kingdom in 1860. Well that was a breath of fresh air. I wanted to read a piece of historical fiction that isn't white history or entirely set in a Western country for once. The opening pages look typical until I read 150 pages, and that's when the central storyline darkens the tone from there. It was heavy enough when Kofi's teacher forced him to speak English and not his first language, Twi, but now his future looks uncertain after he accidentally killed his opponent from the other part of the kingdom.
But wait! It gets worse. Kofi's life worsens when he is captured and is now a slave. It's a simplistic plot that's easy to follow, but it's a fascinating look into what slavery was like through Kofi's POV. The pacing is slow, almost lasting 400 pages, but it didn't feel tedious or repetitive as there was always something happening. The Door of No Return isn't a coming of age story like a quote on the front cover told me, it's more like a piece of historical fiction in verse. Alexander executed the writing style well, meeting my expectations, since he wrote compositions I enjoyed before this one. The final pages were heartbreaking as Kofi's fate is up in the air. Other than that one miss I still regard him as an excellent writer. The Door of No Return is the first instalment of a planned trilogy, which explains the abrupt conclusion, so I'm excited to see what happens next.