Open Water
- Proizvođač: Penguin
- Šifra proizvoda: 9780241448786
- Dostupnost: Na lageru
- €15.00
- Osnovica: €15.00
Caleb Azumah Nelson
WINNER
OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021
WINNER
OF DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022
A
No.1 BESTSELLER IN THE TIMES
Two young people meet at a pub in South
East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools
where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a
dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and
rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem
destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.
At once an achingly beautiful love story
and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means
to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable
when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose
it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most
essential British debut of recent years.
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
WINNER OF DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE
BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG
WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD
WINNER OF THE BAD FORM BOOK OF THE YEAR
AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE
YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE, THE
DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND THE GORDON BURN PRIZE
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD '5 UNDER 35' HONOREE
'A
tender and touching love story, beautifully told'
Observer
'Hands-down
the best debut I've read in years' The Times
'A
beautiful and powerful novel about the true and sometimes painful depths of
love' Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of
QUEENIE
'An
unforgettable debut... it's Sally Rooney meets Michaela Coel meets Teju Cole' New York Times
'A
love song to Black art and thought' Yaa Gyasi,
bestselling author of HOMEGOING and TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM
Tags: contemporary, fiction, political, legal, romance