If I Survive You: Jonathan Escoffery by Amazonundefined

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE
Dazzling
GUARDIAN
Blistering
THE TIMES
'A delight'
DIANA EVANS
Fiction written at the highest level
ANN PATCHETT
'Hilarious, revelatory'
MARLON JAMES
An electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.
What are you?
This is the puzzled question that greets a young Trelawny growing up in a Miami where his racial ambiguity is regarded with confusion and suspicion. Its not just his neighbours, his Jamaican parents Topper and Sanya dont seem to understand him either. Then theres his stubborn older brother Delano, who is determined to secure a better future for his own children, no matter what it takes.
As both brothers navigate the challenges littered in their path a woefully unreliable father, racism, recession and even a hurricane they find themselves increasingly at odds. Will they make it through together or must one brothers future come at the cost of the other?
Shortlisted for the 2024 Gordon Burn Prize
An astonishingly assured debut novel clarity, variety and fizzing prose
BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES
So damn funny
RUMAAN ALAM
Astonishing
I NEWSPAPER
'Utterly unstoppable
IRISH TIMES
What readers say:
So good it was hard to put down
Humour, real feeling totally recommend
So engrossing and entertaining
A must read
Recenzja
Blistering Escoffery writes stinging sentences
The Times
All of life is here in unflinching detail
: the fragility of existence, the American dreamand the road not taken The Booker Prize Judges
Thrilling
With much tenderness in the gulf between father and son
Observer
So brilliant it stopped me in my tracks Astonishing
iNews
Brilliantly energetic his talent feels fully formed and raring to go
Financial Times
Unmissable
rare in that it has the heft and heart of a novel, with the refined finesse of the short story
Irish Times
Surges with the symphonic, imaginative, propulsive energy of Gabriel García Márquez
Guardian
A compelling hurricane of a book
Ann Patchett, author of
The Dutch House
Profound, tender, and laugh-out-loud hilarious,
If I Survive
You will knock you off your feet and keep you spellbound to the very last page
A must-read
. Maaza Mengiste, author of
The Shadow King
, shortlisted for The Booker Prize
Superb
a much-needed new voice Percival Everett, author of Erasure
'This I adore
Sumptuous and astute
' Diana Evans, author of
Ordinary People
An elegant meditation on belonging
from a powerful new writer Nikesh Shukla, author of
Brown Baby
A
dazzling
mirror held up to our identity-obsessed time Joyce Carol Oates, author of
Blonde
A gifted, sure-footed storyteller New York Times
Like nothing you've read before
Marlon James, author of
A Brief History of Seven Killings
So damn funny
Rumaan Alam, author of
Leave the World Behind
O autorze
Jonathan Escoffery is the recipient of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction.
His fiction has appeared in
The Paris Review
,
American Short Fiction
,
Electric Literature
and elsewhere. He is a PhD fellow at the University of Southern California and in 2021 was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University.
If I Survive You
is his first book and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023 and the National Book Award for Fiction in 2022.

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