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 '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 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. 'An
amazing debut novel. You should read this book. Let's hear it for
Caleb Azumah Nelson, also known as the future' Benjamin Zephaniah
'A short, poetic and intellectual meditation on art and a
relationship between a young couple' Bernardine Evaristo, author of
GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER 'A very touching and heartfelt book' Diana
Evans, award-winning author of ORDINARY PEOPLE 'A lyrical modern
love story, brilliant on music and art, race and London life, I
enjoyed it hugely' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY and SWEET
SORROW 'Caleb is a star in the making' Nikesh Shukla, editor of THE
GOOD IMMIGRANT and BROWN BABY 'A stunning piece of art' Bolu
Babalola, bestselling author of LOVE IN COLOUR 'For those that are
missing the tentative depiction of love in Normal People, Caleb
Azumah Nelson's Open Water is set to become one of 2021's
unmissable books. Utterly transporting, it'll leave you weeping and
in awe.' Stylist 'An exhilarating new voice in British fiction'
Vogue 'A poetic novel about Black identity and first love in the
capital from one of Britain's most exciting young voices' Harper's
Bazaar 'An intense, elegant debut' Guardian 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 Pre-order Caleb
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