JJ Bola

Gebundenes Buch

The Selfless Act of Breathing

Beschreibung

A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over.

Autor

JJ Bola is an established writer, poet and UNHCR Ambassador. His three poetry collections - Elevate (2012), Daughter of the Sun (2014), and WORD (2015) - were published in one collection, Refuge (2018), which was read out in the House of Commons during Refugee week in 2018. He was one of Spread the Word's Flight Associates 2017 and a Kit de Waal Scholar for the Birkbeck University MA in Creative Writing.As a former refugee, JJ Bola was invited to the Davos Economic Forum 2018 and held a discussion with Cate Blanchett. His debut novel, No Place to Call Home, was published in the UK in 2017, and in 2018 in North America. His non-fiction book Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined, which exposes masculinity as a socially conditioned performance, was published in the UK in 2019. JJ speaks and performs both internationally and in the UK.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dialogue
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780349702070
• ISBN-10: 0349702071
• Artikelnr.: 60587934

Rezensionen

"[JJ Bola]'s style is highly descriptive, rich in simile and metaphor . . . [his work] is exceedingly timely, speaking to the condition of refugees today." -Booklist

In this wonderfully tender novel about masculinity and mental health, about being lost and finding yourself again, Bola's vulnerable delicate writing conveys so much truth and heart about how we are now, how closed we are, how much goes unsaid and the quiet pain in our hearts Nikesh Shukla