Freshwater (eBook)

Akwaeke Emezi (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
224 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-34541-0 (ISBN)

Infos

**LITTLE ROT - THE NEW NOVEL FROM AKWAEKE EMEZI - IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 'Completely blew me away.' Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under 'One of the most dazzling debuts I've ever read.' Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go 'I'm urging everyone to read it.' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry. Their troubled child begins to develop separate selves and is prone to fits of anger and grief.When Ada grows up and heads to college in America, a traumatic event crystallises the selves into something more powerful. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind, these 'alters' - now protective, now hedonistic - take control, shifting her life in a dangerous direction.

Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the memoir Dear Senthuran; New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; and Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book, longlisted for both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces.

Rezensionen

'This book lured me in from the first sentence. It shook me to the core. This book forges its own glorious path. Read it now. Give it to everyone you know. Read it again.'

'A striking debut exploring a Nigerian woman who develops separate selves within her. As she moves to university in the US, her multiple identities narrate the novel. We're excited to say the least.'

[An] indigenous fairy tale.

Sheer perfection: sexy, sensual, spiritual, wise. One of the most dazzling debuts I've ever read.

A courageous debut novel by Akwaeke Emezi, one of a new generation of Nigerian novelists who are braving forbidden themes, including homosexuality, drug-taking and mental illness.

Ada, the heroine of Akwaeke Emezi's unforgettable debut novel, is not the narrator of her own story. Those duties belong to the other "selves" that occupy her body, more in an ancient souls trapped in a human shell kind of way than a Multiple Personality Disorder way, but the outcome is the same. The conflicts inside her head have voices, and they follow her from her childhood in Nigeria to college in America, ensuring that chaos imbues every step in her journey toward self-discovery

Wow. The net effect is a feeling of being peeled open, and quickly finding that skinless place to be normal. More than any novel I can remember, it feels utterly present to the place we are in the world.

Akwaeke Emezi (she/they) has a brilliant voice and her perspective, being non-binary, trans, and an ogbanje spirit herself, lends the novel its heart. The story pushes back against the typical Western language and ideas surrounding gender and consciousness, and rejects colonialism's attempt to delegitimize Nigerian tradition and Igbo spirituality.

Bewitching and heart-rending ... a coming-of-age novel like no other.

Remarkable and daring.

I'm urging everyone to read it... an intense reading experience.

The book is so shivery, so electric, that the first coherent thought you can put together as you read is that you're watching a major new talent beginning to carve out a space for herself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: aweke emezi • multiple selves • nigerian • nigeriawriters • obanji • ogbanje • #ownvoices
• ISBN-10: 0-571-34541-7 / 0571345417
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34541-0 / 9780571345410