Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, and both are now artists a photographer, and dancers trying to make their mark in a city 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. At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water 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.

Details

• Format:Paperback / softback 160 pages
• Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint:Viking
• ISBN:9780241448786
• Published:3 Feb 2022
• Classifications:London, Greater London, c 2010 to c 2020, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Adult & contemporary romance
• Readership:General (US: Trade)
• Weight:154g
• Dimensions:130 x 196 x 17 (mm)
• Pub. Country:United Kingdom
• Country of Origin:GB
• Tariff Codes:49019900
• For sale in: United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Germany, France