{"product_id":"9780241448786-open-water","title":"Open Water","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022\u003cbr\u003eA No.1 BESTSELLER IN \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A tender and touching love story, beautifully told' \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hands-down the best debut I've read in years' \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A beautiful and powerful novel about the true and sometimes painful depths of love' Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eQUEENIE \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An unforgettable debut. it's Sally Rooney meets Michaela Coel meets Teju Cole'\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A love song to Black art and thought' Yaa Gyasi, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHOMEGOING and TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo 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, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, \u003ci\u003eOpen Water \u003c\/i\u003easks 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. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An amazing debut novel. You should read this book. Let's hear it for Caleb Azumah Nelson, also known as the future' Benjamin Zephaniah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A short, poetic and intellectual meditation on art and a relationship between a young couple' Bernardine Evaristo, author of GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A very touching and heartfelt book' Diana Evans, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eORDINARY PEOPLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A lyrical modern love story, brilliant on music and art, race and London life, I enjoyed it hugely' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY and SWEET SORROW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eCaleb is a star in the making' Nikesh Shukla, editor of \u003ci\u003eTHE GOOD IMMIGRANT \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBROWN BABY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A stunning piece of art' Bolu Babalola, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLOVE IN COLOUR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'For those that are missing the tentative depiction of love in \u003ci\u003eNormal People\u003c\/i\u003e, Caleb Azumah Nelson's \u003ci\u003eOpen Water\u003c\/i\u003e is set to become one of 2021's unmissable books. 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