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Open Water (Paperback)
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Open Water (Paperback)
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List price R423
Loot Price R339
Discovery Miles 3 390
You Save R84 (20%)
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WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5
UNDER 35 WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTIONA
stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London
falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso and finalist
for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year-old writer and
photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson "Open Water is tender poetry, a
love song to Black art and thought, an exploration of intimacy and
vulnerability between two young artists learning to be soft with
each other in a world that hardens against Black people." --Yaa
Gyasi, author of Homegoing In a crowded London pub, two young
people meet. 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--and both are trying to
make their mark in a world 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, and over the course of a year they find their
relationship tested by forces beyond their control. Narrated with
deep intimacy, Open Water is at once an achingly beautiful love
story and a potent insight into race and masculinity that 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, and blistering emotional intelligence, Caleb Azumah
Nelson gives a profoundly sensitive portrait of romantic love in
all its feverish waves and comforting beauty. This is one of the
most essential debut novels of recent years, heralding the arrival
of a stellar and prodigious young talent.
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