Open Water Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021
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Erscheinungsdatum
04.02.2021
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Penguin Books LtdSeitenzahl
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WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021
WINNER OF DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022
A No.1 BESTSELLER IN THE TIMES
'A tender and touching love story, beautifully told' Observer
'Hands-down the best debut I've read in years' The Times
'A beautiful and powerful novel about the true and sometimes painful depths of love' Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEENIE
'An unforgettable debut... it's Sally Rooney meets Michaela Coel meets Teju Cole' New York Times
'A love song to Black art and thought' Yaa Gyasi, bestselling author of HOMEGOING and TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM
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 British debut of recent years.
'An amazing debut novel. You should read this book. Let's hear it for Caleb Azumah Nelson, also known as the future' Benjamin Zephaniah
'A short, poetic and intellectual meditation on art and a relationship between a young couple' Bernardine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER
'A very touching and heartfelt book' Diana Evans, award-winning author of ORDINARY PEOPLE
'A lyrical modern love story, brilliant on music and art, race and London life, I enjoyed it hugely' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY and SWEET SORROW
'Caleb is a star in the making' Nikesh Shukla, editor of THE GOOD IMMIGRANT and BROWN BABY
'A stunning piece of art' Bolu Babalola, bestselling author of LOVE IN COLOUR
'For those that are missing the tentative depiction of love in Normal People, Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water is set to become one of 2021's unmissable books. Utterly transporting, it'll leave you weeping and in awe.' Stylist
'An exhilarating new voice in British fiction' Vogue
'A poetic novel about Black identity and first love in the capital from one of Britain's most exciting young voices' Harper's Bazaar
'An intense, elegant debut' Guardian
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
WINNER OF DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD
WINNER OF THE BAD FORM BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE, THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND THE GORDON BURN PRIZE
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD '5 UNDER 35' HONOREE
Caleb Azumah Nelson's new novel SMALL WORLDS is available now
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Wundervolle, tragische Liebesgeschichte
Mit Open Water liegt dem Leser ein Buch vor, bei dem es vorerst um die Anziehung auf den ersten Blick zwischen einem Mann und einer Frau geht. Auf dem zweiten Blick allerdings geht es um die Stereotypen und Gefahren, ein schwarzer Mann zu sein, die sowohl in Bezug zur mentalen Gesundheit, sowie darauf basierend Beziehungen des Mannes beeinflussen kann. Die Namenslosigkeit der beiden Charaktere sorgt dafür, dass das Buch etwas Zeitloses hat, das nicht auf die Protagonisten limitiert ist, sondern eine Geschichte darstellt, in der sich jeder Mensch in verschiedenen Aspekten wiederfinden kann, vor allem aber schwarze Leser, die leider vergleichbare Erfahrungen gesammelt haben. Es ist ein tolles, poetisch geschriebenes Buch, das dich für die Protagonisten mitfiebern und gegen die tagtäglichen, systematischen Bedrohungen für sie mitfiebern lassen wird. -
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Poetic, powerful, impressive
This book feels like a hot summer day in a stuffy crowded city. Caleb Azumah Nelson is a poet in the truest form, there is not one sentence in this book that isn't a work of art. This short book carries so much impact, both in terms of content as well as language. A truly astonishing debut novella. -
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Lyrical Masterpiece
This is a book about what it means to be young, Black and British in today's society. The author uses the second-person narrator, which makes this story so much more powerful. You don't even get to know the protagonist's name but in order to 'see' him, this is irrelevant. One of my absolute favourites, that left me in tears and literally took my breath away. -
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“It’s one thing to be looked at, and another to be seen.”
It's difficult to say what this book is about without spoiling everything. That's why I'll try to explain it in just one sentence: Two people fall in love and that's when a wave of emotions begins. This book is an incredibly well written novella by Nelson that talks about the many sides of love and what it does to us humans. And all of this in a poetic, dramatic and truly unique way. Poetry meets modern reality! I was so emotionally moved by this novella, it is really indescribable how such a large wave of feelings arose with just a few words and a few pages. I could recognize myself in many pages and I'm sure I won't be alone with that. This great story felt so real and I can only recommend it to everyone!
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