Things They Lost

A Novel

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Beschreibung

<b>Named a Most Anticipated Book by <i>Vogue </i>and <i>Vulture</i></b><br> <br><b>"Alternately whimsical, sweet, and dark," this astonishing literary debut novel about a lonely girl waiting for her mother "brim[s] with uncompromisingly African magical realism" (<i>The New York Times</i>).</b><br><br>Ayosa is a wandering spirit-joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who teach her to dance and wail at the death news; the Jolly-Annas, cruel birds who cover their solitude with spiteful laughter; the milkman, who never greets Ayosa and whose milk tastes of mud; and Sindano, the kind owner of a café no one ever visits. Unexpectedly, miraculously, one day Ayosa finds a friend. Yet she is always fixed on her beautiful mama, Nabumbo Promise: a mysterious and aloof photographer, she comes and goes as she pleases, with no apology or warning.<br> <br>Set at the intersection of the spirit world and the human one, <i>Things They Lost </i>sets out a rich and magical vision of "girlhood as a time of complexity, laced with unparalleled creativity and expansion" (<i>Vogue</i>). Heartbreaking, elegant, and written in "giddily exuberant prose" (<i>Financial Times</i>), it's a story about mothers and daughters, connection, coming-of-age, and the dizzying dualities of love at its most intoxicating and all-encompassing.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781668000984

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

212 x 139 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Scribner