Brit Bennett

Broschiertes Buch

The Vanishing Half

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021

Beschreibung

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Mothers, a powerful new novel about the parallel lives of estranged twin sisters who choose to live in two very different worlds - one black and one white.

Autor

Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Her work is featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel. She is one of the National Book Foundation's 2016 5 Under 35 honorees.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dialogue Books / Little, Brown Book Group
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 731166
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780349701479
• ISBN-10: 0349701474
• Artikelnr.: 60116394

Rezensionen

Bennett's gorgeously written second novel, an ambitious meditation on race and identity, considers the divergent fates of twin sisters, born in the Jim Crow South, after one decides to pass for white. Bennett balances the literary demands of dynamic characterization with the historical and social realities of her subject matter New York Times