Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson by Caleb Azumah Nelson 9780241448779, 0241448778 instant download after payment.

Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary

virtuoso and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year-old

writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson

“Open Water is

tender poetry, a love song to Black art and thought, an exploration of

intimacy and vulnerability between two young artists learning to be soft

with each other in a world that hardens against Black people.” —Yaa

Gyasi, author of Homegoing

In

a crowded London pub, two young people meet. 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—and both are

trying to make their mark in a world 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 apart by fear and

violence, and over the course of a year they find their relationship

tested by forces beyond their control.

Narrated with deep intimacy, Open Water is

at once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race

and masculinity that asks what it means to be a person in a world that

sees you only as a Black body; to be vulnerable when you are only

respected for strength; to find safety in love, only to lose it. With

gorgeous, soulful intensity, and blistering emotional intelligence,

Caleb Azumah Nelson gives a profoundly sensitive portrait of romantic

love in all its feverish waves and comforting beauty.

This is one of the most essential debut novels of recent years, heralding the arrival of a stellar and prodigious young talent.