Freshwater

The debut novel from one of the National Book Foundation's 2018 5 Under 35

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The debut novel of the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35-listed author. Alternately protective and hedonistic entities are at large in a girl coming of age. An exploration of the metaphysics of identity. Zusammenfassung The debut novel from one of the National Book Foundation's 2018 5 Under 35.

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext

The debut novel of the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35-listed author. Alternately protective and hedonistic entities are at large in a girl coming of age. An exploration of the metaphysics of identity.

Zusammenfassung
The debut novel from one of the National Book Foundation's 2018 5 Under 35.