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Posted: Sunday January 9th, 2005 19:21 |
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Brixton Rock
Alex Wheatle
Synopsis
Brenton Brown is 16 years old. A mixed race youth, Brenton has lived in a children's home all his life. Being reunited with his mother is the best thing that has happened to Brenton. But a strange series of events soon push him to the edge.
From the Publisher
Wheatle is the winner of the 1999 New London Writers Award
NICKY MILSON, THE TIMES: ‘… a triumph …bears a striking resemblance to Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock… The main difference is that Brixton Rock is very funny. Brixton Rock is a pacey document of teenage angst…which is why the pockets of humour…prove to be such a triumph. This is a debut which ‘A great debut novel. Really, really exciting story… it has wonderful memories of the 80s.. Alex Wheatle will be a great writer…hints of great stuff to come. Look out for the next one but definitely read this narrative is pacey; witty; his characters real and recognisable. This is a very promising debut’. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Posted: Sunday January 9th, 2005 19:33 |
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Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hepzibah Anderson, Observer
'An intoxicating story that is at once distinctively feminine, African and universal.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The Guardian
"Perceptive characterisation and an evocative portrayal of a fast-changing country, mark this Orange-shortlisted novel out from the crowd." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The Times
'It's a mature coming-of-age story, and an engrossing portrait of Nigerian society.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The Observer, Noreena Hertz
'a beautiful and often harrowing story.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Synopsis
Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes by a talented young Nigerian writer. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her repressive and fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, and more prayer. When Nigeria begins to fall apart during a military coup, Kambili's father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to live with their aunt. In this house, full of energy and laughter, she discovers life and love - and a terrible, bruising secret deep within her family. Centring on the promise of freedom and the pain and exhilaration of adolescence, Purple Hibiscus is the extraordinary debut of a remarkable new talent.
Fruit of the Lemon
Andrea Levy
Amazon.co.uk Review
Andrea Levy writes with wonderful immediacy and liveliness in this, her third novel about the experience of being black in Britain. It's the late 70's and Faith Jackson's in a hurry - to loosen the hold of her loving but strict parents, to "go her own sweet way". At her new job as a dresser at Television Centre Faith negotiates the trip-wires of being black in often slyly witty, seemingly throwaway asides. But her parents' announcement that they might go home to Jamaica and a vicious racist National Front attack on a local bookshop, propels Faith into crisis.
Urged by her parents--"Child, everyone should know where they come from"--she goes to Kingston to stay with garrulous Auntie Coral. For Faith, it was her aunt's and cousin's rich and lively sequence of conversational storytelling's that 'wrapped me in a family history and swaddled me tight in its stories' - then released her into a new sense of self.
Fruit of the Lemon is an affectionate and absorbing narrative that makes its points about racism's effacements and brutalities with unforced but striking resonance. It offers us a voice of pleasurable yet gritty substance and significance: millennial Britain needs more like this. --Ruth Petrie --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Sunday Telegraph
'Always refreshingly undogmatic... [readers] will recognise the truthfulness of the world which Andrea Levy describes'
A Blade of Grass
Lewis Desoto
The Ottawa Citizen
A masterful debut … Clear and strong and beautiful … complex and stunningly evocative.
The National Post
An admirable offering … finely rendered, vital and moving.
The Montreal Gazette
A significant work of post-colonial literature … and a gripping read. A wondrous thing indeed.
The New York Times
DeSoto writes lyrically about the African countryside, and he delicately reveals the nuances of interracial sexual attraction.
Margaret Forster
A splendid novel . . . what fiction should be: instructive, moving, enthralling
Sainsbury's Magazine, June 2004
…has a contemporary relevance, and yet touches a universal chord . . .
the plot moves towards [a] devastating conclusion.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004
One of the 22 longlisted titles announced 26 August
Book Description
Märit Laurens, a young woman of British descent, recently orphaned and newly wed, comes to live with her husband Ben on their farm in an Edenic setting near the border of South Africa. But when guerrilla violence and tragedy visit their lives, Märit finds herself in a tug of war between the local Afrikaaners near the farm and the black workers who live on it. Frightened and confused, she turns to the only person who can offer her friendship – her maid, Tembi. Märit stubbornly determines to run the farm with Tembi’s help, until the encroaching civil war brings out their conflicting loyalties and turns their struggle into a fight for their lives.
Written with exquisite lyricism and deep insight, this novel offers a profound perspective on what it means to be black and white in a country where both live and feel entitlement. Moving beyond its own time and place, it becomes a universal story of the price of freedom.
Chosen as the third International Book of the Month by Bookspan’s Book-of-the-Month Club in the US
Synopsis
Marit Laurens, a young woman of British descent, recently orphaned and newly wed, comes to live with her husband Ben on their farm in an Edenic setting near the border of South Africa. But when guerrilla violence and tragedy visit their lives, Marit finds herself in a tug of war between the local Afrikaaners near the farm and the black workers who live on it. Frightened and confused, she turns to the only person who can offer her friendship - her maid, Tembi. Marit stubbornly determines to run the farm with Tembi's help, until the encroaching civil war brings out their conflicting loyalties and turns their struggle into a fight for their lives. Written with exquisite lyricism and deep insight, this novel offers a profound perspective on what it means to be black and white in a country where both live and feel entitlement. Moving beyond its own time and place, it becomes a universal story of the price of freedom.
About the Author
Lewis DeSoto was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and emigrated with his family to Canada in the 1960s. A graduate of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, he has exhibited in galleries across Canada. His writing has been published in numerous literary journals, and he was awarded the Books in Canada/Writers’ Trust Short Prose Award. A past editor of The Literary Review of Canada, Lewis DeSoto lives with his wife, the Swedish artist Gunilla Josephson, in Toronto and Normandy, France. This is his first novel.
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