LOTE
$22.75
- Paperback
472 pages
- Release Date
26 March 2020
Summary
WINNER of the James Tait Black Prize 2021 and The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021.
As seen in Document Journal, Guardian and The White Review.
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and beauty, while interrogating the removal and obscurement of Black figures from history.
Solitary Mathilda has long been enamore…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913090111 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1913090116 |
| Author: | Shola von Reinhold |
| Publisher: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Imprint: | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Twenty in 2020 |
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Critics Review
“Reaffirms pleasure at the heart of the novel… rich with intrigue and suspense” - Guy Gunaratne, Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021 Judge
It’s funny and weird and dazzlingly clever. – Alice Winn * The Guardian *a celebration of eccentric esprit – Houman Barekat * The Guardian *Lote is a magical, revolutionary piece of writing * FRIEZE *An inspirational, cutting, exquisitely written, multilevel excavation of forgotten Black lives and an Afro-queer celebration of art, aesthetics, literature, and society. – Paul Mendez * author of Rainbow Milk *
LOTE is very very very close to being a masterpiece (and one could make the case that it’s so close that it is one)… …it’s fucking brilliant - provocative, raucously funny, intelligent without being smarmy and uses multiple voices of alleged different sources.Read LOTE, it’s great.
* *An inspirational, cutting, exquisitely written, multilevel excavation of forgotten Black lives and an Afro-queer celebration of art, aesthetics, literature, and society. – Paul Mendez * author of Rainbow Milk *…phenomenal writing. [Shola has] a clear talent for describing emotions, people, places, colours and textures so vividly and I loved their ability to capture life’s more absurd moments (I’m thinking of the Pousse Café Royal cocktail in particular). LOTE has a serious message at its core, a message that will certainly inform my intersectional feminist activism moving forwards, especially as a white, middle-class, straight woman. But LOTE is just as much a joyful celebration of Black culture that gloriously succeeds at reappropriating eccentricity, usually reserved for white members of the aristocracy, through a Black, queer lens. – Louise Binns * The Mistress Of Books *About The Author
Shola von Reinhold
Shola von Reinhold is a writer and artist. Her debut novel, LOTE, won the James Tait Black Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021.
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