Open Water 2: Adrift
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- Open Water received starred reviews from Library Journal and Booklist, as well as positive reviews from Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, The New York Times Book Review, Chicago Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Washington Independent Review of Books, and Publishers Weekly.
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Feb 4, 2021 · 63,333 ratings10,280 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Debut Novel (2021) Two young people meet at a pub in South East London.
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Apr 13, 2021 · April 13, 2021. OPEN WATER. By Caleb Azumah Nelson. Only great artists can craft novels from water. Family, grief, Blackness, Frank Ocean, hip-hop, dancing, growing up, breaking up, London,...
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Reviews. Open Water received starred reviews from Library Journal and Booklist, as well as positive reviews from Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, The New York Times Book Review, Chicago Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Washington Independent Review of Books, and Publishers Weekly.
Book Summary. 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. In a crowded London pub, two young people meet.
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And live up to its praise it did. At just shy of 150 pages, I read Open Water in a single sitting, and didn’t want it to end. A love story at its core, Nelson’s novel is unbelievably beautifully written, and so poetic and prose-like in places, that there were several passages I went back to re-read. Exquisitely crafted, despite Open Water’s relativ...
Two young people meet at a pub in South-East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists – he a photographer, she a dancer – trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who see...
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer living in south-east London. His writing has been published in Litro. He was recently shortlisted for the Palm Photo Prize and the BBC National Short Story Prize 2020, and won the People’s Choice prize. Open Water is his debut novel. Love this post? Click hereto subscribe. This post ...
Apr 13, 2021 · OPEN WATER. by Caleb Azumah Nelson ‧RELEASE DATE: April 13, 2021. Written in lyrical and propulsive prose, a searing debut. bookshelf. shop now. A riveting love story that celebrates the cultural significance of Black artists and examines the ways systemic racism figures into every aspect of the lives of young Black men.
Apr 7, 2021 · And listen to us on the Book Review podcast. See more on: Robert Menendez. In his debut novel, “Open Water,” the British-Ghanaian author incorporates images, scenes and the occasional Kendrick ...
