open water

Open Water

“It’s one thing to be looked at, it’s another to be seen.”
Our love is like swimming into the dangerous and romantic open waters.
★Costa Book Award for Best Debut ★UK National Book Award for Best Debut ★Highly anticipated new work by a genius published in simplified Chinese for the first time [Brief Introduction]
In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both Black and British, they both won scholarships to private school but felt out of place there. Now both are artists—he a photographer, she a dancer—trying to make their mark in a world that sometimes welcomes them, sometimes rejects them. Carefully and tenderly, they fall in love. But two people seemingly destined for each other can still be torn apart by fear and violence. Over the course of a year, their relationship is tested by forces beyond their control.
Told intimately in the second person, Open Water is both a heartbreakingly beautiful love story and a profound insight into race and masculinity. Written with gorgeous, soulful touch and piercing emotional intelligence, Nelson paints a profound and sensitive portrait of romance.
【Expert Recommendation】
Only a great artist can carve a novel out of water.
—The New York Times
A beautiful and poetic debut work.
——CNN

2025-04-01

北京联合出版公司

Yazhong Culture

176

9787559681614