The Sweetness of Water

About the author

Nathan Harris is a Michener fellow at the University of Texas. He was awarded the Kidd prize, as judged by Anthony Doerr, and was also a finalist for the Tennessee Williams fiction prize. THE SWEETNESS OF WATER is his debut novel. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Summary

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a powerful American debut portraying life after slavery in the vein of WASHINGTON BLACK

Foreword

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a powerful American debut set during the Civil War and portraying life after slavery in the vein of WASHINGTON BLACK

Additional text

Absolutely stunning, full of vivid descriptions, gripping tension, dynamically complex characters, and a well-woven story

Report

The Sweetness of Water is a fine, lyrical novel, impressive at the level of the sentence, and in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political. In presenting two narratives largely overlooked in traditional renderings of the war, Harris breathes new life into a period of history whose stories have grown stale with overtelling Observer

Product details

• Authors: Nathan Harris, Harris Nathan, NATHAN HARRIS
• Publisher: Tinder Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781472274410
• ISBN: 978-1-4722-7441-0
• No. of pages: 410
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Relating to African American people, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, Slavery and abolition of slavery