{"product_id":"there-are-more-things-9780349726748","title":"there are more things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize \u0026amp; the Orwell Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Fiction \u003cb\u003eBook of the Year  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''a \u003cb\u003eserious accomplishment\u003c\/b\u003e'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003evivid and expansive\u003c\/b\u003e'' Sophie Mackintosh\u003cbr\u003e''a \u003cb\u003elyrical\u003c\/b\u003e celebration'' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''a\u003cb\u003e glorious, poetic\u003c\/b\u003e feat'' Bolu Babalola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a novel about two women - Melissa and Catarina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatarina is born to a well-known political family in Brazil. Melissa, a South London native, is brought up by her mum and a crew of rebellious grandmothers. In 2016, they meet for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir story takes us across continents and generations. In it we see sisterhood and queerness, and, perhaps, glimpse a better way to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003ethere are more things\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003cb\u003evivid and expansive\u003c\/b\u003e novel of sisterhood, love and connection. \u003cb\u003eReading it is a true experience of joy, and of hope\u003c\/b\u003e' -- Sophie Mackintosh, author of THE WATER CURE\u003cbr\u003e'A serious accomplishment from a talented writer with a gloriously untethered style' * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethere are more things \u003c\/i\u003ebuilds on the formal innovation of Yara Rodrigues Fowler's first novel in \u003cb\u003ea blistering collage of revolution, sisterhood and joy\u003c\/b\u003e. Set between contemporary Britain and Brazil's military dictatorship, this book \u003cb\u003eexplores the forces outside of ourselves that bind us together and wrench us apart\u003c\/b\u003e. Her work is honest about political and personal losses, yet strung with light and hope. \u003cb\u003eShe reminds us of the power we hold in our individual bodies and the potency of collective strength\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003ethere are more things\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the societal structures that ensnare us and captures the exuberance and heartache in longing for a better world -- Jessica Andrews, author of SALTWATER\u003cbr\u003eA lyrical celebration, and mourning, of women driven to and empowered by activism and community engagement . . . Yara Rodrigues Fowler depicts agitation and revolution as a combination of personal and shared moments, filled with hope, loss, loneliness and love * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eG\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eripping\u003c\/b\u003e. Yara writes about London like no other and she made me fall in love with the city all over again. A\u003cb\u003e lyrical, relatable and fiercely intelligent\u003c\/b\u003e tale of first loves, friendships, family and politics told with generosity, skill and compassion.' -- Zeba Talkhani, author of MY PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY\u003cbr\u003etypically \u003cb\u003emagnificent \u003c\/b\u003efrom a unique writer -- Musa Okwonga\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eempowering, lyrical and radical \u003c\/b\u003ebook about friendship, protest movements, community and the power of standing up for what you believe in. \u003cb\u003eYara once again rips up what we consider to be a novel and pushes the form forward in an exciting and readable way\u003c\/b\u003e -- Nikesh Shukla\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethere are more things\u003c\/i\u003e is it's own thing. Situated closely and confidently in the idioms of people navigating a politics that feel \u003cb\u003etrue and nuanced\u003c\/b\u003e, with it's own theory of translating experience, intergenerational histories, place and language.There is a wit too to \u003cb\u003ethis book that feels like a wink of familiarity in a pub\u003c\/b\u003e, discussing the next best thing over a sticking counter. In a crisp and astute poetics, \u003cb\u003eYara makes music of the warm breath between people\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tice Cin, author of KEEPING THE HOUSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethere are more things \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about \u003cb\u003efreedom and solidarity and joy\u003c\/b\u003e. It will make you yearn for freedom and believe in more and deeper possibilities than you ever thought possible. Yara Rodrigues Fowler \u003cb\u003ebrilliantly brings to life\u003c\/b\u003e lives lived freely and fully.\u003cb\u003e I couldn't put it down\u003c\/b\u003e -- Amelia Horgan, author of LOST IN WORK\u003cbr\u003eA novel as a stack of polaroids, whose every day moments are saturated with the love, pain and grief women carry across generations and political movements, \u003ci\u003ethere are more things\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003cb\u003ebeautiful, unusual and vital \u003c\/b\u003enovel, seeking and forging powerful connections across time -- Preti Taneja\u003cbr\u003eAn ambitious and important novel from \u003cb\u003eone of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethe UK's most talented young writers\u003c\/b\u003e. The book gathers so much into its complex strands, from the nature of exile and uprootedness to friendship it takes us to Brazil and circles us back to the precarity of London living experienced by so many today. It gives us a window into lives so often dismissed and ignored. \u003cb\u003eFowler's female characters are so sensitively drawn\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003eThis is a talented writer who has written something both moving and complex\u003c\/b\u003e -- Mona Arshi\u003cbr\u003eWritten with a painful tenderness, Yara's book pours generously like honey and sticks uncomfortably around questions of home, family, and love. \u003cb\u003eA beautiful and heart aching testament of sisterhood and collectivity\u003c\/b\u003e, Yara's second novel is \u003cb\u003ea gift \u003c\/b\u003eto spend time with, \u003cb\u003ea book to tread delicately through\u003c\/b\u003e -- Liv Wynter\u003cbr\u003eYara Rodrigues Fowler is an urgently \u003cb\u003eimportant and captivating voice\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003ethere are more things \u003c\/i\u003ekept me \u003cb\u003eenchanted from the first page\u003c\/b\u003e -- Vincent Bevins\u003cbr\u003ea phenomenal story of two women, revolution, and finding a place in the world. \u003cb\u003eA book of epic scope \u0026amp; intricate detail\u003c\/b\u003e. Stunning -- Katie Hale, author of MY NAME IS MONSTER\u003cbr\u003efull of the \u003cb\u003eemancipatory and radical\u003c\/b\u003e potential of joy -- Keiran Goddard\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethere are more things \u003c\/i\u003eis\u003cb\u003e an exquisite story\u003c\/b\u003e of love and revolution, friendship and heartbreak, language and history, beautifully told and so powerfully felt. This is a transportative and captivating novel - I truly felt as though I lived and breathed among its pages and will be thinking about it for a very long time. \u003cb\u003eYara Rodrigues Fowler is an outstanding writer and this is a truly brilliant literary and political achievement\u003c\/b\u003e -- Lucia Osbourne-Crowley\u003cbr\u003eA stirring portrait of the legacy of violence . . . experimental and evocative . . . While the themes that this novel tackles are harrowing, they are handled with the most delicate and deft touch. Issues like queerness, casual racism, the anxiety of being in a foreign land and the pressure of being grateful for being allowed the same opportunities as a white person are sensitively depicted in Fowler's vivid prose * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eA large-hearted novel of sisterhood and resistance -- Tom Gatti * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eReignited my mind and my passion. It is a glorious, poetic, expansive feat that traverses sisterhood, and love, and revolution and home, and the bravery it takes to question what oppresses -- Bolu Babalola\u003cbr\u003eThis is a vibrant, sensual, olfactory modern novel that celebrates kinship, food, music, mixed heritage, the rhythms of the city, political and sexual awakenings. Formally experimental, but never forbiddingly so, it is a seductive, propulsive read * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eA political novel rooted in power and cemented in hope * The Skinny, Books of the Year 2022 *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884024869207,"sku":"9780349726748","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349726748.jpg?v=1722530089","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/there-are-more-things-9780349726748","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}