Donaldson David Santos
Donaldson David Santos - Greenland A Novel - Paperback
Donaldson David Santos - Greenland A Novel - Paperback
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Description: Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A dazzling debut novel - within - a - novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E. M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl in which Mohammed's story collides with his own blending fact and fiction. In 1919, Mohammed el Adl the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster spent six months in a jail cell. A century later Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty - one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed's story. Kip has only three weeks until his publisher's deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who like Kip is Black queer an Other. The similarities don't end there. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their confrontations with Whiteness homophobia their upper crust education and their white romantic partners. As Kip immerses himself in his writing Mohammed's story and then Mohammed himself begins to speak to him and his life becomes a Proustian portal into Kip's own memories and psyche. Greenland seamlessly conjures two distinct yet overlapping worlds where the past mirrors the present and the artist's journey transforms into a quest for truth that offers a world of possibility. Electric and unforgettable David Santos Donaldson's tour de force excavates the dream of white assimilation the foibles of interracial relationships and not only the legacy of a literary giant but literature itself.
Title: Greenland A Novel
Author(s): Donaldson David Santos
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780063159563
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 5/16/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A dazzling debut novel - within - a - novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E. M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl in which Mohammed's story collides with his own blending fact and fiction. In 1919, Mohammed el Adl the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster spent six months in a jail cell. A century later Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty - one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed's story. Kip has only three weeks until his publisher's deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who like Kip is Black queer an Other. The similarities don't end there. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their confrontations with Whiteness homophobia their upper crust education and their white romantic partners. As Kip immerses himself in his writing Mohammed's story and then Mohammed himself begins to speak to him and his life becomes a Proustian portal into Kip's own memories and psyche. Greenland seamlessly conjures two distinct yet overlapping worlds where the past mirrors the present and the artist's journey transforms into a quest for truth that offers a world of possibility. Electric and unforgettable David Santos Donaldson's tour de force excavates the dream of white assimilation the foibles of interracial relationships and not only the legacy of a literary giant but literature itself.
Title: Greenland A Novel
Author(s): Donaldson David Santos
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780063159563
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 5/16/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
