Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer, living in South East London. His writing is forthcoming or has been published in THE WHITE REVIEW, LITRO and he was recently shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award, the Palm Photo Prize and won the People’s Choice prize. OPEN WATER is his first novel.
You lost her gaze for a moment and your breath quickened, as when a dropped call across a distance gains unexpected gravity. You would soon learn that love made you worry, but it also made you beautiful. Love made you Black, as in, you were most coloured when in her presence. It was not a cause for concern, one must rejoice! You could be yourselves. (查看原文)
You came here to speak of what it means to love your best friend. Ask: if flexing is being able to say the most in the fewest number of words, is there a greater flex than love? Nowhere to hide, nowhere to go. A direct gaze.
The gaze requires no words at all, it is an honest meeting.
You came here to speak of shame and its relation to desire. There should be no shame in openly saying, I want this. There should be no shame in not knowing what one wants. (查看原文)
Open Water 2.5/5 The rating is more a case of “It’s not you, it’s me”. The book is beautifully written with prose and a poetic and theatric touch. I was drawn to it by the stunning book cover and many great reviews, so I picked it as a black history mon...
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Grove Press2021版
还没人写过短评呢
还没人写过短评呢