Open Water: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021

Open Water: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021

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Beschreibung

'A tender and touching love story, beautifully told' Observer 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021

'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 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
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160
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Beiträge

15
Alle
5

Poetisch und wunderschön

Ein Buch wie ein langes Gedicht, die Geschichte von zwei schwarzen jungen Menschen in London, die sich ineinander verlieben. Erzählt in lyrischer Prosa, darin verwoben Jazz und Rap Musik. Ein Jahreshighlight für mich. Ich werde noch lange an dieses Buch denken.

4

Süß!!!

Das Buch handelt ausschließlich über die Gefühlswelt eines Mannes und die Höhen, Tiefen und Qualen des Verliebtseins. Die verträumte, abstrakte Sprache und das feine Gefühl für Situationen haben mir besonders gefallen. Jede Seite hat Freude bereitet.

3

mega aesthetic geschrieben aber einfach nich so mein ding

mega aesthetic geschrieben aber einfach nich so mein ding
4

"to be him is to apologize and often that apology comes in the form of suppression" I thumbed through it once I finished reading and only then did I fully understand the web that's been woven. Gorgeous.

3.5

Sprachlich wunderbar, nur leider nicht mein Fall. Obwohl es nahezu ausnahmslos um die Gefühlswelt der Hauptfigur ging, konnte ich keine Verbindung aufbauen. Vielleicht war das sogar so gewollt, weil die Figur so verloren ist aber für mich hat es die 144 Seiten in die Länge gezogen.

Sprachlich wunderbar, nur leider nicht mein Fall. Obwohl es nahezu ausnahmslos um die Gefühlswelt der Hauptfigur ging, konnte ich keine Verbindung aufbauen. Vielleicht war das sogar so gewollt, weil die Figur so verloren ist aber für mich  hat es die 144 Seiten in die Länge gezogen.
5

Hat sich für mich angefühlt wie ein poertry Slam gemischt mit einer sehr wichtigen Geschichte.

Für mich wird dieses Buch immer eins meiner Favoriten bleiben. Die Art und Weise, wie hier Sprache genutzt wird um Gefühle zu vermitteln, habe ich noch nie in einem anderen Buch erlebt. Auch die Story hat mich sehr begeistert.

2

First of all, the edition of the book I’ve read was nothing but an ARM WORKOUT?! Penguin, what the ***? Why do you make a paperback out of rock hard paper so that you aren’t even able to open the book properly??? But apart from that this book just wasn’t for me. The topics were important and interesting, but the actual storyline and writing? Nah. The writing style was very repetitive and sometimes even pretentious. There was no real character building, these characters were absolutely flat and unlikable (especially the woman who was portrayed to have random mood swings). The lyrical writing is forcing emotions which aren‘t there in the actual plot, I can’t even explain it. „Under what conditions does the uncontainable stay contained? Things unsaid don't often remain so. They take shape and form in ways one doesn't expect, manifesting in touches, glances, gazes, sighs. All you have wanted to do was hold each other in the darkness. Now, you have opened the box and left it unguarded in the night. You have both placed faith in the other that you will wake up intact. You have acted on a feeling. You are in a memory of the present. You are tumbling through a fever dream, surfacing only to plunge once more.“

5

i love love love this book! the writing style, the honesty, the pain - just everything and more.

5

“You've been wondering about your own relationship to open water. You've been wondering about the trauma and how it always finds its way to the surface, floating in the ocean. You've been wondering about how to protect that trauma from consumption. You've been wondering about departing, about being elsewhere. You have always thought if you opened your mouth in open water you would drown, but if you didn't open your mouth you would suffocate. So here you are, drowning.”

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