The Dust Never Settles

The Dust Never Settles
Karina Lickorish Quinn
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7 Oct 2021 UK
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9780861541850
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A hauntingly beautiful debut for fans of Isabel Allende and Kazuo IshiguroThe yellow walls of Anais' family home loom over the sprawling city of Lima. When she left Peru and moved to London, she dared to hope she might have left the echoing voices of her ancestors behind - voices that reverberate through the corridors of the family mansion. But now she must return to Peru to organise the sale of the house, submerging herself once more in the constant whispers of her deceased relatives. What begins as an uneasy homecoming soon becomes a reckoning with secrets that refuse to stay buried, in this gorgeously atmospheric debut from an unforgettable new literary voice.
' A mesmerising feat of imagination and a masterful debut. ' -- Paul Lynch, author of Irish Novel of the Year winner, Grace ' Lickorish Quinn' s magnificent debut enchants from first page to last. . . A breath-taking writer of singular voice. ' -- Patrick Flanery, author of Absolution ' Karina Lickorish Quinn is the new face of magic realism. She has given it, through Anais, a female body and soul. . . She makes it sing, she makes it work and she has built a world that stands on its own three feet. Like its title, The Dust Never Settles will stay floating inside the reader, impossible to forget or unsee. ' -- Laia Jufresa, author of Umami ' An innovative and precisely imagined exploration of identity, family, ghosts, and the intersection between personal and national history. It swept me away. ' -- Clare Fisher, author of All the Good Things ' The Dust Never Settles is ambitious, fascinating and endlessly inventive - a time-bending, kaleidoscopic fever dream in which the living coexist with the dead, and the past with present. ' -- Luiza Sauma, author of Everything You Ever Wanted ' Karina Lickorish Quinn has rendered on the page a person and a place in all their conflicted histories so convincingly and dizzyingly and singularly that the very ink haunts. It leaves a shadow text on the reader' s psyche. The Dust Never Settles is a marvelous, vertiginous work that mercilessly conveys the post-colonial state. ' -- Caoilinn Hughes, author of The Wild Laughter
Karina Lickorish Quinn is a bilingual, Peruvian-British writer raised in the English Midlands, Lima and New York. She has a BA from Oxford University, an MA from UCL, and is currently completing her PhD at Queen Mary University of London. Karina is currently the Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Leeds. Her short fiction features in Un Nuevo Sol, the first major anthology of British-Latinx writers, published by Flipped Eye Publishing. Her work has also appeared in The Offing, Asymptote, The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, and Palabritas. In 2016 she was shortlisted for The White Review' s short story prize. The Dust Never Settles, is her first novel.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780861541850
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 1

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