Everest
Shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prose Prize
$57.06
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2025
Summary
A collection of diamond-sharp stories from an award-winning writer, for fans of Eliza Clark’s She’s Always Hungry and Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties.
What happens when you reach Everest’s peak? Is it everything you dreamed?
In a magnetic follow-up to Winter Animals, Ashani Lewis’ debut collection takes a kaleidoscopic approach to desire - its obsessions, its grotesque demands and the distance it creates between us - and the strange…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349703329 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349703329 |
| Author: | Ashani Lewis |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Dialogue Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 138mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
A writer with a sharp, observational eye … She possesses a rare ability to write with both solemnity and ironic humour across the pages of a single story … Funny and astute, Lewis has a keen eye for both the echoing loneliness and transcendent moments of connection in our increasingly atomised lives. – ‘We’ve found the best books of 2024 to curl up with’ * Marie Claire *
About The Author
Ashani Lewis
Ashani Lewis is a novelist and short story writer. She was a winner of the London Writers Awards 2021 in their literary fiction category. She was a recipient of the 2025 Somerset Maugham Award for her debut novel, Winter Animals, which was also the winner of the 2025 Betty Trask Prize. Her short story collection, Everest, was shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize. Both books were listed in Marie Claire’s ‘Best Books Of 2024’.
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