Small Worlds
Калеб Азума Нельсон
The one thing that can…
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ISBN: 9780241574348
Год издания: 2023
Язык: Английский
240 pages, Hardcover
MELISSA KATSOULIS, THE TIMES (UK)
"As they grow into their bodies and creative selves against a backdrop of urban (as in the sprawling, stinky, humming city) life and urban (as in black) music and culture, theirs is the ultimate modern romance, and we see it from the inside. Azumah Nelson's characters are intelligent, and his poetic, elastic, bright prose has an uplifting energy, even when he's writing about the pain of loneliness. There are hard chapters about London race riots, poverty, knife crime and grief. About contemporary Africa, global migration and loss of faith. Repeated words and phrases (including some from Open Water) form an insistent chorus. But beneath it all is a sense of wonder and delight at the gifts the world can bestow ... Turning pain into a blissful art form is nothing new for black creators, many of whom are namechecked in this culturally open novel. But Azumah Nelson is something new: an unashamedly clever, spiritual, angry, loving voice in fiction, just when we need it most. Small Worlds is a book for everyone. Sure, unless you are a London teenager or live with one, you'll probably miss the resonance of some words and phrases — but no matter. No one could fail to feel the message, of always striving for emotional honesty and hope, that is at the heart of this uplifting symphony of a summer read."
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