Moses McKenzie

An Olive Grove in Ends (eBook, ePUB)

The dazzling debut novel about love, faith and community, by an electrifying new voice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

THE DAZZLING DEBUT NOVEL ABOUT LOVE, COMMUNITY AND DREAMS DEFERRED - BY AN EXCITING NEW LITERARY VOICE

Sayon Hughes, a young black man living in Bristol, longs to escape the world in which he was raised and make a better life with Shona, the strong-minded, strong-willed girl he's always loved.

Yet his ties to his loving but lawless extended family continue to pull him back. Sayon finds himself increasingly trapped in the cycle of murderous violence and drug-dealing to which he has been drawn by his unpredictable and fiercely loyal cousin Cuba.

One night, Shona's charismatic pastor father witnesses an altercation involving Sayon and Cuba, in which a young man is killed. Soon the pastor begins to exert his own hold over Sayon, and Sayon finds his loyalties torn. Is it possible to break free from his family and his past? And if he doesn't, does he stand to lose Shona forever?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472283139
• Artikelnr.: 61821686

Autorenporträt

Moses McKenzie is of Caribbean descent and grew up in Bristol, where his first two novels are set. His debut, An Olive Grove in Ends, which Moses wrote at the age of twenty-one, was listed as a Guardian Novel of the Year 2022 and shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best First Novel Award 2023. He was named one of The Observer's 10 Must-Read Debut Novelists of 2022, and won the inaugural Soho House Breakthrough Writer Award the same year. He is currently working on the TV adaptation of An Olive Grove in Ends, and has recently completed his second novel, Fast by the Horns, which will publish in spring 2024.