Open Water
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021
$18.36
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2022
Summary
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 a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241448786 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241448786 |
| Author: | Caleb Azumah Nelson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 127mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Open Water is a beautifully, delicately written novel about love, for self and others, about being seen, about vulnerability and mental health. Sentence by sentence, it oozes longing and grace. Caleb is a star in the making. – Nikesh Shukla, editor of THE GOOD IMMIGRANT and author of BROWN BABY
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 short, sharp poetic burst of a novel; it crystallises the torments and heat of young love brilliantly – Andrew McMillan, award-winning author of PHYSICAL
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a 27-year-old British-Ghanaian writer and photographer living in South East London. His photography has been shortlisted for the Palm Photo Prize and won the People’s Choice prize. His short story, PRAY, was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2020. His first novel, OPEN WATER, was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. He was selected as a National Book Foundation ‘5 under 35’ honoree by Brit Bennett in 2021.
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