Small Worlds
By Caleb Azumah Nelson
Harry Hartog's review
Small Worlds is one of those books that is able to make you feel everything, all at once. I don't think I have ever come across a book that is so full of beauty, sadness, joy and raw emotion. Nelson's writing is poetry and the characters feel so real and raw that you just want to sit with them and hold their presence in your lap. I could not recommend this book more to every single reader. It is urgent, important and it it made me stop and remember to focus on the small world that is my life. - Lauren, Subscriptions
Description
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water
The one thing that can solve Stephen's problems is dancing. Dancing with his best friend Adeline, two-stepping around the living room, crooning and grooving, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone, at home, to his father's records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known.
Stephen has only ever known himself in song. But what becomes of him when the music fades? When his father begins to speak of shame and sacrifice, when his home is no longer his own? How will he find space for himself- a place where he can feel beautiful, a place he might feel free?
Set over the course of three summers in Stephen's life, from London to Ghana and back again, Small Worlds is an exhilarating and expansive novel about the worlds we build for ourselves, the worlds we live, dance and love within.
- ISBN:
- 9780241996041
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 272
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Weight:
- 192 g