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Informationen zum Autor Moses McKenzie is of Caribbean descent and grew up in Bristol, where his first two novels are set. His debut novel, An Olive Grove in Ends , which Moses wrote at the age of twenty-one, won the prestigious Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 2023; it was also listed as a Guardian Novel of the Year 2022 and shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best First Novel Award 2023. Moses 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 . His second novel, Fast by the Horns , was published in May 2024. Klappentext An Observer Top 10 Debut Novelist of 2022 'Announcing the arrival of a 23-year-old author whose work is wise beyond his years' Guardian Sayon Hughes, a young Black man from Bristol, dreams of a world far removed from the one in which he was raised: from the torn slips outside the bookie's, the burnt spoons and the crooked solutions his community embraces; most of all, removed from the Christianity of his uncaring parents and the prejudice of the law. Growing up, Sayon found respite from the chaos of his environment in the love and loyalty of his brother-in-arms, Cuba; in the example of his cousin Hakim, once the most infamous drug-dealer in their neighbourhood, now a proselytising Muslim; and in the tenderness of his girl, Shona, whose own sense of purpose galvanises Sayon's. In return, Sayon wants to give the people he loves the world: a house atop a grand hill in the most affluent area of the city, a home in which they can forever find joy and safety. But after an altercation in which a boy is killed, Sayon finds his loyalties torn and his dream of a better life in peril. 'Consumately crafted' Patrick McCabe 'Full of wisdom' Independent 'Luminous' Cherie Jones 'Remarkable' Nathan Harris Vorwort THE DAZZLING DEBUT NOVEL ABOUT LOVE, FAITH AND COMMUNITY - BY AN EXCITING NEW LITERARY VOICE Zusammenfassung ONE OF THE OBSERVER 'S 10 MUST-READ DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022 A GUARDIAN NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER: HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE 2023; SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2023; SOHO HOUSE BREAKTHROUGH WRITER AWARD 2022 SHORTLISTED: THE WRITERS' GUILD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2023 'Luminous prose, rendered with sensitivity and without sentimentalism. An astonishing debut' Cherie Jones, author of HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE Sayon Hughes, a young Black man from Bristol, dreams of a world far removed from the one in which he was raised. Far removed from the torn slips outside the bookie's, the burnt spoons and the crooked solutions his community embraces; most of all, removed from the Christianity of his uncaring parents and the prejudice of law-makers. Growing up, Sayon found respite from the chaos of his environment in the love and loyalty of his brother-in-arms, Cuba; in the example of his cousin Hakim, a man once known as the most infamous drug-dealer in their neighbourhood, now a proselytising Muslim; and in the tenderness of his girl, Shona, whose own sense of purpose galvanises Sayon's. In return, Sayon wants to give the people he loves the world: a house atop a grand hill in the most affluent area of the city, a home in which they can forever find joy and safety. But after an altercation in which a boy is killed, Sayon finds his loyalties torn and his dream of a better life in peril. MORE PRAISE FOR AN OLIVE GROVE IN ENDS : 'Announcing the arrival of a promising 23-year-old author whose work is wise beyond his years' GUARDIAN 'A remarkable debut, bristling with sharp prose and daring originality' Nathan Harris, author of THE SWEETNESS OF WA...
