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Speak No Evil by Iweala, Uzodinma
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- Binding
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 0061284939
- Book Title
- Speak No Evil : a Novel
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- African American / General, Romance / Contemporary, Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Weight
- 6.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061284939
ISBN-13
9780061284939
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Book Title
Speak No Evil : a Novel
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
African American / General, Romance / Contemporary, Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Coming of Age
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
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Reviews
A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read., "Speak No Evil is the rarest of novels: the one you start out just to read, then end up sinking so deeply into it, seeing yourself so clearly in it, that the novel starts reading you." -- Marlon James, Booker Award-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings "The classic coming-out narrative describes how the central character makes a leap from one identity to another, into a different, freer life, while the classic immigrant novel depicts what it's like to straddle two worlds, old and new, with a foothold in each. Speak No Evil is both and neither.... The soul of Speak No Evil is the tortuous, exquisitely rendered relationship between Niru and his father." -- The New Yorker "A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read." -- Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure "An evocative narrative and stark dialogue keeps Uzodinma Iweala's Speak No Evil from a single dull moment.... His characters' rawness and beauty overwhelm page by page, looping their two stories into one heartbreaking narrative, one that embodies and echoes the pains of current, broader inequalities." -- AV Club "A timely story of friendship, secrets, and consequences." -- Vogue "A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Speak No Evil probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala's characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction." -- Larissa MacFarquhar "Iweala unwinds crucial issues of choice and the burden of playing multiple parts; says Niru, 'It's too confusing for me to live all these lives when I want only one.' Throughout a narrative spiraling toward tragedy, Niru's pain is so palpable it will make you gasp.... Highly recommended." -- Library Journal, starred review "In Uzodinma's staggering sophomore novel (after Beasts of No Nation), the untimely disclosure of a secret shared between two teens from different backgrounds sets off a cascade of heartbreaking consequences.... Speaks volumes about white heterosexual privilege.... Notable both for the raw force of Iweala's prose and the moving, powerful story." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "A searing take on the notion of home, and the struggle to be at home with oneself.... Speak No Evil deals with less epic subject matter [than Beasts of No Nation], but there's subtle power in its intimacy and in its depictions of the violence we do to each other and to ourselves." -- Seattle Times "Delivers with immediate poignancy Niru's struggles.... A later shift in narration allows a different and perhaps more complete picture of Niru, which Iweala also handles elegantly. Portraying cross-generational and -cultural misunderstandings with anything but simplicity, Iweala tells an essential American story." -- Booklist, starred review "Heart-wrenching .... A visceral but compassionate portrait of what it means to be different within a family, let alone society at large." -- Washington Blade "Iweala stirringly brings to life a young man at war with himself in this moving new novel.... Speak No Evil isn't an easy read. It is, however, compelling, sensitively told, and satisfying." -- Lambda Literary "A haunting story about identity and power." -- Paste Magazine "The story unspools as quickly as running star Niru can clip around the track, building into a classical tragedy with modern flair.... The talented Iweala has fashioned a heart-rending story of teenage love that turns on the technological trappings and persistent prejudices of contemporary life." -- Dallas Morning News
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
823/.92
Synopsis
Winner of the Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction A Lambda Literary Award Finalist A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist An Indie Next Pick A Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month A Library Journal Best Book of the Year A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read.--Gary Shteyngart A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Speak No Evil probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala's characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction.--Larissa MacFarquhar In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation , a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences. On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he's a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer--an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders--and the one person who seems not to judge him. When his father accidentally discovers Niru is gay, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed. In the tradition of Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Speak No Evil explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. It is a novel about the power of words and self-identification, about who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for other people. As heart-wrenching and timely as his breakout debut, Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala's second novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake. One of Bustle's 35 Most Anticipated Fiction Books Of 2018 One of Paste 's 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2018 One of The Boston Globe 's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018, Winner of the Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction A Lambda Literary Award Finalist A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist One of Bustle's and Paste's Most Anticipated Fiction Books of the Year "Speak No Evil is the rarest of novels: the one you start out just to read, then end up sinking so deeply into it, seeing yourself so clearly in it, that the novel starts reading you." -- Marlon James, Booker Award-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In the tradition of Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Speak No Evil explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. It is a novel about the power of words and self-identification, about who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for other people. As heart-wrenching and timely as his breakout debut, Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala's second novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake. On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he's a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer--an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders--and the one person who seems not to judge him. When his father accidentally discovers Niru is gay, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed., Winner of the Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction - A Lambda Literary Award Finalist - A Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist - An Indie Next Pick - A Barnes and Noble Best Book of the Month - A Library Journal Best Book of the Year "A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read."--Gary Shteyngart "A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Speak No Evil probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala's characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction."--Larissa MacFarquhar In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation , a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences. On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he's a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer--an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders--and the one person who seems not to judge him. When his father accidentally discovers Niru is gay, the fallout is brutal and swift. Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed. In the tradition of Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Speak No Evil explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. It is a novel about the power of words and self-identification, about who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for other people. As heart-wrenching and timely as his breakout debut, Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala's second novel cuts to the core of our humanity and leaves us reeling in its wake. One of Bustle's 35 Most Anticipated Fiction Books Of 2018 - One of Paste 's 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2018 - One of The Boston Globe 's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018
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