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Open water / Caleb Azumah Nelson.

A stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black artists falling in and out of love. 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 seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence. 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. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential debut of recent years.

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Adult fiction   Smithfield Branch . . Available .  
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Field name Details
ISBN 9780241448779 (hardback)
Author Nelson, Caleb Azumah author.
Title Open water / Caleb Azumah Nelson.
Published [London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2021.
Physical description 146 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary A stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black artists falling in and out of love. 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 seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence. 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. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential debut of recent years.
Subject Blacks -- England -- Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
Masculinity -- Fiction
Private schools -- England -- London -- Fiction
Blacks -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Photographers -- Fiction
Dancers -- Fiction
Artists, Black -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Romance fiction
London (England) -- Fiction
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