Dark Neighbourhood

Dark Neighbourhood
Vanessa Onwuemezi
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Paperback
h197 x 125mm - 136pg
6 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781913097707
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In her brilliantly inventive debut collection, Vanessa Onwuemezi takes readers on a surreal and haunting journey through a landscape on the edge of time. At the border with another world, a line of people wait for the gates to open; on the floor of a lonely room, a Born Winner runs through his life' s achievements and losses; in a suburban garden, a man witnesses a murder that pushes him out into the community. Struggling to realize the human ideals of love and freedom, the characters of Dark Neighbourhood roam instead the depths of alienation, loss and shame. With a detached eye and hallucinatory vision, they observe their own worlds as the line between dream and reality dissolves and they themselves begin to fragment. Electrifying and heady, and written with a masterful lyrical precision, Dark Neighbourhood heralds the arrival of a strikingly original new voice in fiction.
' Dark Neighbourhood is a thrill and a challenge. Vanessa Onwuemezi is her own thing, but reading her I experience the same exciting, destabilizing sense of the world being shown anew - being made anew - that I get from Silvina Ocampo, Clarice Lispector or Dambudzo Marechera. ' - Chris Power, author of A Lonely Man ' Onwuemezi' s writing is a breath of fresh air. This collection is a marvel. ' - Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters ' Vanessa Onwuemezi' s work makes legible the liminal spaces of contemporary existence: border-zones at once geopolitical, metaphysical and - above all - linguistic. She sends English off on a great line of flight, from which it returns as poetry. ' - Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island' With stories of ambiguous embodiments, slick, mordant desires and warping cityscapes, Vanessa Onwuemezi' s Dark Neighbourhood offers a new poetics of storytelling. Lyrical clarity combines with formal experimentation alongside hotching, grimaced, and dazzling world-building: a potent, portentous, truly original collection. ' - Eley Williams, author of The Liar' s Dictionary
Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. Her work has appeared in Prototype, frieze and Five Dials. Her story ' At the Heart of Things' won The White ReviewShort Story Prize 2019.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781913097707
Published: 6 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 125mm
Pages: 136

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