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Feb 4, 2021 · At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it.
Apr 13, 2021 · A stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year-old writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson.
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Open Water is a novel by Caleb Azumah Nelson, published February 4, 2021 by Viking Press, and again in 2022 by Penguin Books. The novel is written from a second person point of view, and features a protagonist who remains unnamed throughout.
Jan 27, 2021 · Open Water Hardcover – January 27, 2021. by Nelson Caleb Azumah (Author) 4.1 2,777 ratings. Goodreads Choice Award nominee. See all formats and editions. 'A tender and touching love story, beautifully told' Observer 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021.
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Feb 4, 2021 · A short, sharp poetic burst of a novel; it crystallises the torments and heat of young love brilliantly -- Andrew McMillan, award-winning author of PHYSICAL. Open Water is a powerful portrayal of the way that systemic violence can make a person forget softness and vulnerability.
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Apr 13, 2021 · Narrated with deep intimacy, Open Water is at once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity that asks what it means to be a person in a world...
At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it.
Apr 13, 2021 · Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut, “Open Water,” sets a romance between 20-somethings against the backdrop of racial oppression in southeast London.
A stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award,...
Apr 13, 2021 · Beautiful First Novel. An ambitious novella, Caleb Azumah Nelson delivers a lyrical tale of young lovers who have to navigate their complicated feelings for one another as well as the isolation they have felt growing up as Black British.
