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A vital and honest book exploring the pain of the immigrant experience and the turmoil it can carry across generations, from the winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize

DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA''S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR PEOPLE''S BOOK PRIZE - FICTION 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 2023


''A highly enigmatic, affectionate and robustly written portrayal of a mother-son relationship . . . very relatable'' Diana Evans

Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother''s life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the UK and navigates parenthood in a strange and often lonely environment, the effects of her displacement are felt across generations.

Told through the eyes of both mother and son, Losing the Plot is at once emotionally raw and playful as Owusu experiments with form to piece together the immigrant experience and explore how the stories we share and tell ourselves are just as vital as the ones we don''t.

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: Losing the Plot
• Author: Derek Owusu
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781838855642
• ISBN: 1838855645
• ID: 43067975
• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Weight: 118 g
• Date of publishing: 02. November 2023

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