Awake Awake
Autor Fiona Mozleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 aug 2026
"A warm, kindly, and beautifully written novel about growing up in a family and in history, about inconvenient memory and haunted repression." -Sarah Moss
From the Booker Prize finalist, a mesmerizing spiral of a novel whose unreliable narrator and her endearing group of friends reckon with the psychological weight of history, as it seeps into their everyday lives and relationships
Mary has started remembering things that she knows aren't real-but the events feel exactly like her actual memories. Who is she, if she can't be sure she knows her own past? A writer in her 30s struggling to make rent, Mary has moved back to her childhood town to bartend and save money, when she starts remembering absurd events, clear and visceral as if they'd really happened to her. But she knows they're too wild to be possible. Flashing back to her school years, she searches the past for what could have caused this split in her reality. The lives of their close group of school friends have since diverged, as life choices and politics, partners and children, have taken them to different places and placed them into other stories. But Mary must reconnect with them to find solid ground again.
Set against the disorienting and rapidly changing political backdrop of the 2000s and 2010s, Fiona Mozley's disarming coming-of-age tale is addictively readable, and poignantly captures the shakiness of identity - both personal and national - and the anchoring force of friendship.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781523537143
ISBN-10: 1523537140
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 1523537140
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Notă biografică
Fiona Mozley was born in East London and raised in York, in the North of England. She studied history at Cambridge and then lived in Buenos Aires and London, working at a literary agency and at a travel center. Her first novel, Elmet, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. She lives in Edinburgh with her partner and their dog. Mozley's second novel, Hot Stew, is available now.
Recenzii
On the one hand, a clarion call - a clear-eyed view of contemporary moral and political failure in the UK - and on the other, an assembly of engrossing philosophical and metaphysical engagements with the nature of memory . . . a fascinating read
Confident and unsettling . . . Awake Awake deserves a place alongside Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings and Claire Messud's The Burning Girl as an elegiac reflection on the intensity of teenage friendship, along with the almost unbearable pain that results when such a bond is severed
An incredible achievement, a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I've read before . . . every character and storyline could be its own novel and yet they come together so thunderously and convincingly . . . It blew me away
A unique, visionary novel about the toll of memory and the power and fragility of the human heart and mind. Fiona Mozley gives a masterclass in the novel form, showing just how much room for invention we still have. I couldn't put it down
A warm, kindly and beautifully written novel about growing up in a family and in history, about inconvenient memory and haunted repression
A stunning jewel of a novel. In crisply evoked scenes, Mozley brings to life all the peril and appetite of childhood friendship, set against the changing political climate of the early twenty-first century. It is a book in which the past lives on in the present, in which history itself proves skittish and irreducible. It is, finally, a gorgeous testament to the fierce bonds that connect us when we are young and the memories that shape not only who we were once, but who we become
All the ingredients are present for a rich and compelling novel
Introspective and intelligent
A fascinating novel about our tenuous sense of self, friendship, and more
An unforgettable inquiry into the nature of memory
Sharp characters and introspection characterise an engrossing tale that dodges between the fragile and the crisply real
Confident and unsettling . . . Awake Awake deserves a place alongside Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings and Claire Messud's The Burning Girl as an elegiac reflection on the intensity of teenage friendship, along with the almost unbearable pain that results when such a bond is severed
An incredible achievement, a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I've read before . . . every character and storyline could be its own novel and yet they come together so thunderously and convincingly . . . It blew me away
A unique, visionary novel about the toll of memory and the power and fragility of the human heart and mind. Fiona Mozley gives a masterclass in the novel form, showing just how much room for invention we still have. I couldn't put it down
A warm, kindly and beautifully written novel about growing up in a family and in history, about inconvenient memory and haunted repression
A stunning jewel of a novel. In crisply evoked scenes, Mozley brings to life all the peril and appetite of childhood friendship, set against the changing political climate of the early twenty-first century. It is a book in which the past lives on in the present, in which history itself proves skittish and irreducible. It is, finally, a gorgeous testament to the fierce bonds that connect us when we are young and the memories that shape not only who we were once, but who we become
All the ingredients are present for a rich and compelling novel
Introspective and intelligent
A fascinating novel about our tenuous sense of self, friendship, and more
An unforgettable inquiry into the nature of memory
Sharp characters and introspection characterise an engrossing tale that dodges between the fragile and the crisply real
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'An incredible achievement, a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I've read before' Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee
What if you can no longer trust your memories?
Mary is struggling with her memory. She does not have too few recollections but too many, including some that are downright absurd. She has many memories of her childhood: going to parties and on school trips, walks with her father and family dinners. She remembers world events too: the falling of the Twin Towers and the Iraq War. But the most concerning memories she has are about her Jewish grandfather and his role in the death of Adolf Hitler. She feels sure - almost completely sure - that what she has been told can't be true, that she must have imagined the whole thing. But there is a doubt.
To decipher fact from fiction, Mary goes back over her life, sorting through her childhood and adolescence with her three friends in York, through an adulthood accustomed to tragedy. Guided by her family and friends, Mary attempts to figure out what is real, both in history and her own life, all the while wondering if her mind has conjured everything.
'A unique, visionary novel about the toll of memory and the power and fragility of the human heart and mind. Fiona Mozley gives a masterclass in the novel form' Kim Sherwood, author of Testament
'An incredible achievement, a story of friendship, memory, loss, and moral duty unlike any I've read before' Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee
What if you can no longer trust your memories?
Mary is struggling with her memory. She does not have too few recollections but too many, including some that are downright absurd. She has many memories of her childhood: going to parties and on school trips, walks with her father and family dinners. She remembers world events too: the falling of the Twin Towers and the Iraq War. But the most concerning memories she has are about her Jewish grandfather and his role in the death of Adolf Hitler. She feels sure - almost completely sure - that what she has been told can't be true, that she must have imagined the whole thing. But there is a doubt.
To decipher fact from fiction, Mary goes back over her life, sorting through her childhood and adolescence with her three friends in York, through an adulthood accustomed to tragedy. Guided by her family and friends, Mary attempts to figure out what is real, both in history and her own life, all the while wondering if her mind has conjured everything.
'A unique, visionary novel about the toll of memory and the power and fragility of the human heart and mind. Fiona Mozley gives a masterclass in the novel form' Kim Sherwood, author of Testament