
How To Say Babylon
A Jamaican Memoir
$18.66
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2025
Summary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
‘Vivid and empowering’ GILLIAN ANDERSON
‘A stunning book’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO
‘Dazzling’ TARA WESTOVER
‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’ GUARDIAN
An award-winning, inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience.
Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches, Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008491321 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0008491321 |
| Author: | Safiya Sinclair |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
‘An electrifying memoir’OBSERVER
‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’ GUARDIAN
‘Vivid and empowering’ GILLIAN ANDERSON
‘Heart-stoppingly gripping’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO
‘Dazzling’ TARA WESTOVER
‘Glimmering … laced with poetic voice’TIME
‘Clear-eyed and courageous’ GUARDIAN
‘A breathless, scorching memoir’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Electrifying’SPECTATOR
‘Lushly observed’ WASHINGTON POST
‘Stirring’ ELLE
‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES
‘Unforgettable, mesmerising, heartbreaking and heartwarming’ ELIF SHAFAK
‘Powerful … moving’EVENING STANDARD
‘Sinclair’s lush, lyrical language makes everything feel alive’ RAVEN LEILANI
‘A memoir of liberation’IRISH TIMES
‘Stunningly written’iNEWS
‘An instant contemporary Caribbean classic’ MONIQUE ROFFEY
‘Atmospheric and completely absorbing’ DIANA EVANS
‘Essential’ JESMYN WARD
‘Gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying’ NICOLE DENNIS-BENN
‘Immersive, imagistic, honest’ RAYMOND ANTROBUS
‘Destined to become a feminist classic’ LISA ALLEN-AGOSTINI
‘Heart-warming, tender and fierce’ LILY DUNN
About The Author
Safiya Sinclair
Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Nation, Poetry and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.
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