**Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood** **** **'Bernardine Evaristo is one of those writers who should be read by everyone, everywhere. Her tales marry down-to-earth characters with engrossing story lines about identity, and the UK of t
Girl, Woman, Other
โ Scribed by Bernardine Evaristo
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic;Grove Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 285 KB
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 080215770X
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โฆ Synopsis
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
"Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible." --Booker Prize citation
From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women. Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, Girl, Woman, Other paints a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain, as well as looking back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's...
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