Dear Senthuran (eBook)

Akwaeke Emezi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021 | 1. Auflage
304 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
9780571366170 (ISBN)

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One of Stylist's Best Memoirs for Summer 2021 'Unlike anything I've read . . . Remarkable.' Roxane Gay 'A thing of great beauty.' Paris Review In letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family - both biological and chosen - and to fellow storytellers, Akwaeke describes the shape of a life lived in overlapping realities. Through heartbreak, chronic pain, intimacy with death, becoming a beast, this is embodiment as a nonhuman: outside the boundaries imposed by expectations and legibility. This book is an account of the grueling work of realignment and remaking necessary to carve out a future for oneself. The result is a Black spirit memoir: a powerful, raw unfolding of identity. 'An audacious sojourn through the terror and beauty of refusing to explain yourself. 'New York Times

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.6.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Between the World and Me H is for Hawk Educated Luster Raven Leilani Assembly Natasha Brown Audre Lorde Bernardine Evaristo • Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates • Claudia Rankine Roxane Gay James Baldwin Maggie Nelson Tara Westover Therese Mailhot Brit Bennett Bolu Babalola Ta-Nehisi Coates Hanif Abdurraqib • Gender Euphoria Notes on Grief Lisa Taddeo Brene Brown Tarana Burke Zakiya Dalila Harris Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner Rachel Cusk Okwonga Musa Nadia Owusu Aftershocks • Heart Berries • H is for Hawk • Lambda Literary Awards Dylan Thomas Prize Orwell Prize for Literary Fiction Awards Shortlist • Maggie Nelson The Argonauts • Our Shared Shelf Emma Watson • Tara Westover Educated • The Death of Vivek Oji • The Death of Vivek Oji Pet Freshwater • The Vanishing Half Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Candice Braithwaite Leone Ross Jeanette Winterson
• ISBN-13: 9780571366170 / 9780571366170