If I Survive You

ISBN-13: 9780008501228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Jonathan Escoffery

Opis

The thrilling new literary debut shortlisted for the Booker Prize: 'Hilarious, revelatory' - Marlon James

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

'Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES

'An absolute delight to read' DIANA EVANS

'Superb ... A strong, much needed new voice in our literature' PERCIVAL EVERETT

'A compelling hurricane of a book' ANN PATCHETT

Recenzje

'An astonishing, compassionate entrance to the literary scene' i Newspaper

'All of life is here in unflinching detail: the fragility of existence, the American dream_and the road not taken' The Booker Prize Judges

'A commanding debut from a talent to watch' Observer

'Brilliantly energetic... his talent feels fully formed and raring to go' Financial Times

'Unmissable... rare in that it has the heft and heart of a novel, with the refined finesse of the short story... The only thing to do is eagerly press it into the hands of others' Irish Times

'Jaunty, irrepressible and full of energy... A fine achievement' Suzy Feay, Financial Times Weekend

'Sings with authenticity and heart' AnOther

'Surges with the symphonic, imaginative, propulsive energy of Gabriel García Márquez' Guardian

'Ravishing... thrillingly free' New Yorker

'Fiction written at the highest level... There are no limits to where he will go' Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

'Superb... a beautiful economy in the telling that never sacrifices the depth, complexity and richness of the worlds these characters inhabit' Percival Everett, author of Erasure

'This I adore... Sumptuous and astute, excellent on the humiliations of familial and societal experience' Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People

'Tender; vicious; very funny. An impassioned, singular book' Ross Raisin, author of A Natural

'An elegant meditation on belonging from a powerful new writer' Nikesh Shukla, author of Brown Baby

'A dazzling mirror held up to our identity-obsessed time' Joyce Carol Oates, author of Blonde

'A gifted, sure-footed storyteller' New York Times

'Like nothing you've read before' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

'A welcome reminder of what fiction can do' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

O autorze

Jonathan Escoffery is the recipient of the 2020 Plimpton
Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts
Literature Fellowship and the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction.
His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature and elsewhere. He is a PhD fellow at the University of Southern California and in 2021 was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. If I Survive You is his first book and was
longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023 and the National Book Award for Fiction in 2022.