Search results for ""Author Anakana Schofield""
Biblioasis Martin John
• This novel tells the story of a minor character in Malarky, winner of the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and a B&N Discover Great New Writers pick. Malarky was a critical success that appeared on 16 Best Books of 2012 lists, including Salon.com and Amazon.ca. • The themes of this novel are incredibly topical: Martin John explores issues of sexual abuse, the treatment of sex offenders by the criminal justice system, and violence against women — all with great empathy and dark humor. • Schofield is a charismatic, zany, humorous performer whose reputation as a crowd-pleaser has garnered her invitations to major North American festivals, including the Brooklyn Book Festival. Due to this and the quality of her writing, she's developed an enthusiastic and loyal readership. Anakana is comfortable in front of audiences, television cameras, and on national radio. • Schofield has contributed to The Guardian, The London Review of Books Blog, and other major outlets. Her list of friends and correspondents in the media (e.g. Lev Grossman, who promised to help promote her next novel.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Bina: A Novel in Warnings
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Little, Brown Book Group Bina: Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2021
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 'Insightful. Inventive. Hilarious. Genius' EIMEAR MCBRIDE'Bina is fiction of the rarest and darkest kind, a work whose pleasures must be taken measure for measure with its pains' RACHEL CUSK'A captivating look at female friendship' MAIL ON SUNDAY My name is Bina and I'm a very busy woman. That's Bye-na, not Beena. I don't know who Beena is but I expect she's having a happy life. I don't know who you are, or the state of your life. But if you've come all this way here to listen to me, your life will undoubtedly get worse. I'm here to warn you . . .So begins this 'novel in warnings' - an unforgettable tour de force in the voice of an ordinary-extraordinary woman who has simply had enough. Through the character of Bina, who is writing out her story on the backs of discarded envelopes, Anakana Schofield filters a complex moral universe filled with humour and sadness, love and rage, and the consolations, obligations and mysteries of lifelong friendship. A work of great power, skill, and transformative empathy from a unique and astonishing writer.
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