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Girl, Woman, Other - A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) (Hardcover)
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Girl, Woman, Other - A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) (Hardcover)
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE"A must-read about
modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel
about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains,
laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate,
razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a
single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow
you to turn away from its momentum."--Booker Prize Judges
Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the
first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the
English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of
the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an
interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid
portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the
legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead
vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose
work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend
Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's
funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley's former students,
is a successful investment banker; Carole's mother Bummi works as a
cleaner and worries about her daughter's lack of rootedness despite
her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer
to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these
unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their
identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. Sparklingly
witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see
othered, and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows
technique from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and
richly textured social novel that shows a side of Britain we rarely
see, one that reminds us of all that connects us to our neighbors,
even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.
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Imprint: |
Black Cat
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Booker Prize Winner |
Release date: |
December 2019 |
Authors: |
Bernardine Evaristo
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Dimensions: |
213 x 137 x 41mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
464 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-5770-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-8021-5770-X |
Barcode: |
9780802157706 |
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