A Jamaican Memoir
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Köp båda 2 för 373 krUnder Safiya Sinclairs barndom blir hennes far som tillhör en strikt rastafarisekt orolig för att västerländsk kvinnlighet skulle göra Safiya och hennes systrar moraliskt svaga och orena. Han förbjuder smink, smycken, avvikande åsikter och vänner ...
A beautiful debut collection from Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair that draws on our colonial history and speaks powerfully to our present moment. Shortlisted for Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021 A Guardian most anticipated book for 2...
An electrifying memoir OBSERVER A story about hope, imagination and resilience GUARDIAN 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON Heart-stoppingly gripping BERNARDINE EVARISTO Dazzling TARA WESTOVER Glimmering laced with poetic voice TIME Clear-eyed and courageous GUARDIAN A breathless, scorching memoir NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Electrifying SPECTATOR Lushly observed WASHINGTON POST Stirring' ELLE To read it is to believe that words can save MARLON JAMES Unforgettable, mesmerising, heartbreaking and heartwarming' ELIF SHAFAK Powerful moving EVENING STANDARD Sinclair's lush, lyrical language makes everything feel alive RAVEN LEILANI A memoir of liberation IRISH TIMES Stunningly written iNEWS An instant contemporary Caribbean classic MONIQUE ROFFEY Atmospheric and completely absorbing DIANA EVANS Essential JESMYN WARD Gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying NICOLE DENNIS-BENN Immersive, imagistic, honest RAYMOND ANTROBUS Destined to become a feminist classic LISA ALLEN-AGOSTINI Heart-warming, tender and fierce LILY DUNN
Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Metcalf Award in Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Cannibal was selected as one of the American Library Associations Notable Books of the Year, was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Seamus Heaney First Book Award in the UK, and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Nation, Poetry and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University.