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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE

'Dazzling'GUARDIAN

'Blistering'THE TIMES

'A delight' DIANA EVANS

'Fiction written at the highest level'ANN PATCHETT

'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES

An electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.

'What are you?'

This is the puzzled question that greets a young Trelawny growing up in a Miami where his racial ambiguity is regarded with confusion and suspicion. It's not just his neighbours, his Jamaican parents Topper and Sanya don't seem to understand him either. Then there's his stubborn older brother Delano, who is determined to secure a better future for his own children, no matter what it takes.

As both brothers navigate the challenges littered in their path - a woefully unreliable father, racism, recession and even a hurricane - they find themselves increasingly at odds. Will they make it through together or must one brother's future come at the cost of the other?

Shortlisted for the 2024 Gordon Burn Prize

'An astonishingly assured debut novel ... clarity, variety and fizzing prose' BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES

'So damn funny' RUMAAN ALAM

'Astonishing'I NEWSPAPER

'Utterly unstoppable'IRISH TIMES

What readers say:

'So good it was hard to put down'

'Humour, real feeling ... totally recommend'

'So engrossing and entertaining'

'A must read'

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE

'Dazzling'GUARDIAN

'Blistering'THE TIMES

'A delight' DIANA EVANS

'Fiction written at the highest level'ANN PATCHETT

'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES

An electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.

'What are you?'

This is the puzzled question that greets a young Trelawny growing up in a Miami where his racial ambiguity is regarded with confusion and suspicion. It's not just his neighbours, his Jamaican parents Topper and Sanya don't seem to understand him either. Then there's his stubborn older brother Delano, who is determined to secure a better future for his own children, no matter what it takes.

As both brothers navigate the challenges littered in their path - a woefully unreliable father, racism, recession and even a hurricane - they find themselves increasingly at odds. Will they make it through together or must one brother's future come at the cost of the other?

Shortlisted for the 2024 Gordon Burn Prize

'An astonishingly assured debut novel ... clarity, variety and fizzing prose' BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES

'So damn funny' RUMAAN ALAM

'Astonishing'I NEWSPAPER

'Utterly unstoppable'IRISH TIMES

What readers say:

'So good it was hard to put down'

'Humour, real feeling ... totally recommend'

'So engrossing and entertaining'

'A must read'

Über den Autor

Jonathan Escoffery is the recipient of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction.

His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature and elsewhere. He is a PhD fellow at the University of Southern California and in 2021 was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. If I Survive You is his first book and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023 and the National Book Award for Fiction in 2022.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780008501211
ISBN-10: 0008501211
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Escoffery, Jonathan
Hersteller: Harper Collins Publishers - UK Wholesale Acct
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 224 x 147 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Jonathan Escoffery
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,379 kg
Artikel-ID: 121256514

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