• Open Water
  • Open Water
  • Open Water
  • Open Water
  • Open Water
  • Open Water
  • Open Water
  • Open Water

Open Water

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Paperback Published on: 03/02/2022
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Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021

Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for February 2022

Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2022.

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021

Winner of The British Book Awards 2022 Debut Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2021

A stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black British 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 British debut of recent years.

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780241448786
  • Number of pages: 160
  • Weight: 151g
  • Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 12 mm