Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences
A memorable book from an important talent * Guardian *
A finely observed coming-of-age story. . an emotional eloquence that reveals the awful power of love and guilt * Mail on Sunday *
The soul of Speak No Evil is the tortuous, exquisitely rendered relationship between Niru and his father * New Yorker *
Stunning * Vogue *
Tackling race, gender and violence, it's a sharp burst of emotion * Stylist *
Speak No Evil is the rarest of novels: the one you start out just to read, then end up sinking so deeply into it, seeing yourself so clearly in it, that the novel starts reading you * Marlon James *
A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read * Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure *
A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Speak No Evil probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala's characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction * Larissa MacFarquhar *
A quietly tragic triumph * Financial Times *
A craftily written heart-wrencher, it explores what it means to be black and queer in today's USA * Independent, Best LGBT novels to look out for in 2018 *
Elegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Guardian *
Uzodinma Iweala . . . reminds his readers of the underlying humanity of his characters, whatever their heritage, race, or sexuality * TLS *
Adept storytelling and eye for lucid detail . . . it has the stomach-churning pace of a Greek tragedy * Financial Times *
Elegant and elegiac * Bookseller *
That Iweala is a writer of spectacular talent is without question * Observer *
A finely observed coming-of-age story. . an emotional eloquence that reveals the awful power of love and guilt * Mail on Sunday *
The soul of Speak No Evil is the tortuous, exquisitely rendered relationship between Niru and his father * New Yorker *
Stunning * Vogue *
Tackling race, gender and violence, it's a sharp burst of emotion * Stylist *
Speak No Evil is the rarest of novels: the one you start out just to read, then end up sinking so deeply into it, seeing yourself so clearly in it, that the novel starts reading you * Marlon James *
A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read * Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure *
A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Speak No Evil probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala's characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction * Larissa MacFarquhar *
A quietly tragic triumph * Financial Times *
A craftily written heart-wrencher, it explores what it means to be black and queer in today's USA * Independent, Best LGBT novels to look out for in 2018 *
Elegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Guardian *
Uzodinma Iweala . . . reminds his readers of the underlying humanity of his characters, whatever their heritage, race, or sexuality * TLS *
Adept storytelling and eye for lucid detail . . . it has the stomach-churning pace of a Greek tragedy * Financial Times *
Elegant and elegiac * Bookseller *
That Iweala is a writer of spectacular talent is without question * Observer *
Uzodinma Iweala received the 2006 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Beasts of No Nation. In 2007, he was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he lives in New York City and Lagos, Nigeria.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719523700 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719523702 |
| Title | Speak No Evil |
| Author | Uzodinma Iweala |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Year published | 2018-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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