Speak No Evil
Autor Uzodinma Iwealaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2019
'A writer of spectacular talent' Observer
On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, DC, he's a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer - an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except his best friend, Meredith - the one person who seems not to judge him.
When his father accidentally finds out, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding towards a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed.
Speak No Evil is a novel about the power of words and self-identification, about who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for other people.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780719523908
ISBN-10: 0719523907
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 130 x 199 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția John Murray
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0719523907
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 130 x 199 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția John Murray
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
That Iweala is a writer of spectacular talent is without question
A memorable book from an important talent
A finely observed coming-of-age story . . . an emotional eloquence that reveals the awful power of love and guilt
The soul of Speak No Evil is the tortuous, exquisitely rendered relationship between Niru and his father
Stunning
Tackling race, gender and violence, it's a sharp burst of emotion
Speak No Evil is the rarest of novels: the one you start out just to read, then end up sinking so deeply into it, seeing yourself so clearly in it, that the novel starts reading you
A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read
A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Speak No Evil probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala's characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction
A quietly tragic triumph
A craftily written heart-wrencher, it explores what it means to be black and queer in today's USA
Elegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power
Uzodinma Iweala . . . reminds his readers of the underlying humanity of his characters, whatever their heritage, race, or sexuality
Adept storytelling and eye for lucid detail . . . it has the stomach-churning pace of a Greek tragedy
Elegant and elegiac
A memorable book from an important talent
A finely observed coming-of-age story . . . an emotional eloquence that reveals the awful power of love and guilt
The soul of Speak No Evil is the tortuous, exquisitely rendered relationship between Niru and his father
Stunning
Tackling race, gender and violence, it's a sharp burst of emotion
Speak No Evil is the rarest of novels: the one you start out just to read, then end up sinking so deeply into it, seeing yourself so clearly in it, that the novel starts reading you
A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read
A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Speak No Evil probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala's characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction
A quietly tragic triumph
A craftily written heart-wrencher, it explores what it means to be black and queer in today's USA
Elegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power
Uzodinma Iweala . . . reminds his readers of the underlying humanity of his characters, whatever their heritage, race, or sexuality
Adept storytelling and eye for lucid detail . . . it has the stomach-churning pace of a Greek tragedy
Elegant and elegiac
Textul de pe ultima copertă
On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, DC, he’s a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school, bound for Harvard in the fall. But Niru has a painful secret: he is gay—an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders—and the one person who seems not to judge him.
When Niru’s father accidentally discovers an incriminating text on his phone, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed.
As heart-wrenching and timely as his breakout debut, Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake.
When Niru’s father accidentally discovers an incriminating text on his phone, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed.
As heart-wrenching and timely as his breakout debut, Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake.
Notă biografică
Uzodinma Iweala received the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, all for Beasts of No Nation. He was also selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he lives in New York City and Lagos, Nigeria.