Everest
Shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prose Prize
$30.72
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
12 November 2024
Summary
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 things we stubbornly, hopefully, desperately expect from our lives.
A dying woman dedicates her life to Antarctic ice; an All-American star longs for a romance that defies convention, to th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349703336 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349703337 |
| Author: | Ashani Lewis |
| Publisher: | Dialogue |
| Imprint: | Dialogue Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 12 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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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 living in London, whose writing has won the Tower Poetry Prize and the Alpine Fellowship Writing Competition, as well as being featured in Harper’s Bazaar and Joyland. She was a winner of the London Writers Awards 2021 in their literary fiction category.
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