This Brutal House - Govinden, Niven
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"On the steps of New York's city hall, five aging Mothers sit in silent protest. They are the guardians of the vogue ball community: queer men who opened their hearts and homes to countless lost Children, providing safe spaces for them to explore their true selves. Through epochs of city nightlife, from draconian to liberal, the Children have been going missing, their absences ignored by the authorities. In a final act of dissent the Mothers have come to pray: to expose their personal struggle beneath our age of protest and to commemorate their loss until justice is served. Watching from city…mehr

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"On the steps of New York's city hall, five aging Mothers sit in silent protest. They are the guardians of the vogue ball community: queer men who opened their hearts and homes to countless lost Children, providing safe spaces for them to explore their true selves. Through epochs of city nightlife, from draconian to liberal, the Children have been going missing, their absences ignored by the authorities. In a final act of dissent the Mothers have come to pray: to expose their personal struggle beneath our age of protest and to commemorate their loss until justice is served. Watching from city hall's windows is city clerk Teddy. Raised by the Mothers, he is now charged with brokering an uneasy truce."--
Autorenporträt
Niven Govinden is an award-winning writer of five novels. He was long-listed for the Jhalak Prize, and short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize (2019) and the Polari Prize (2020) for his most recent novel, This Brutal House. His last novel, Diary of A Film, was released in the UK by Hachette in 2021 and in the US by Deep Vellum in 2022 to great acclaim.