Harmless Like You
Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017
(Sprache: Englisch)
An exciting new voice in fiction captures the fragile personal histories of an estranged mother and son.
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An exciting new voice in fiction captures the fragile personal histories of an estranged mother and son.
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WINNER OF THE 2017 AUTHOR'S CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BETTY TRASK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 BAMB READERS AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH AUTHOR
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZE
'This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration.' LORRIE MOORE
Written in startlingly beautiful prose, HARMLESS LIKE YOU is set across New York, Berlin and Connecticut, following the stories of Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki's son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront his mother who abandoned him when he was only two years old.
HARMLESS LIKE YOU is an unforgettable novel about the complexities of identity, art, adolescent friendships and familial bonds, offering a unique exploration of love, loneliness and reconciliation.
Autoren-Porträt von Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Buchanan, Rowan HisayoRowan Hisayo Buchanan is a Japanese-British-Chinese-American writer. Her debut novel, Harmless Like You was published in 2016 and won the Author's Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask award. It was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan was the recipient of a Margins fellowship for the Asian American Writers Workshop, has a BA from Columbia University, an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently working on a PhD at the University of East Anglia. Her writing has appeared in the short story anthology How Much the Heart Can Hold (Sceptre), the Guardian, New York Times, Granta, The Paris Review and The Atlantic among other places. She has lived in London, New York, Tokyo, Madison and Norwich.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
- 2016, 320 Seiten, Maße: 15 x 22 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Sceptre
- ISBN-10: 1473638321
- ISBN-13: 9781473638327
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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Impressive . . . Rowan Hisayo Buchanan [is] a 27-year-old with a very big literary career in front of her . . . Slick and intelligent... it's the subtle brilliance of Buchanan's back-to-front tale that really left me reeling. Stylist
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