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Goliath

- A Novel

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A New York Times Editors'' Choice Pick! A Most Anticipated Pick for USA Today | Bustle | Buzzfeed | Goodreads | Nerdist | io9 | WBUR | Polygon | The New Scientist Connecticut Book Award for Fiction winner! Dragon Award Finalist! "In this ambitious novel, dense with perspectives and social commentary, Onyebuchi dreams up disparate lives in a crumbling future AmericaΓÇöwith gentrifiers returning to Earth from space colonies and laborers trying to make a precarious livingΓÇöwhile leaving room for moments of beauty and humor."ΓÇöThe New York Times, Editors'' Choice In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and ALA Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Delany and Station Eleven. In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked. A primal biblical epic flung into the future, Goliath weaves together disparate narrativesΓÇöa space-dweller looking at New Haven, Connecticut as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover; a group of laborers attempting to renew the promises of EarthΓÇÖs crumbling cities; a journalist attempting to capture the violence of the streets; a marshal trying to solve a kidnappingΓÇöinto a richly urgent mosaic about race, class, gentrification, and who is allowed to be the hero of any history.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781250782953
  • Bindende:
  • Hardback
  • Sider:
  • 336
  • Utgitt:
  • 25. januar 2022
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 218x297x32 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 414 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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Beskrivelse av Goliath

A New York Times Editors'' Choice Pick!
A Most Anticipated Pick for USA Today | Bustle | Buzzfeed | Goodreads | Nerdist | io9 | WBUR | Polygon | The New Scientist
Connecticut Book Award for Fiction winner! Dragon Award Finalist!
"In this ambitious novel, dense with perspectives and social commentary, Onyebuchi dreams up disparate lives in a crumbling future AmericaΓÇöwith gentrifiers returning to Earth from space colonies and laborers trying to make a precarious livingΓÇöwhile leaving room for moments of beauty and humor."ΓÇöThe New York Times, Editors'' Choice
In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and ALA Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Delany and Station Eleven.
In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked.
A primal biblical epic flung into the future, Goliath weaves together disparate narrativesΓÇöa space-dweller looking at New Haven, Connecticut as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover; a group of laborers attempting to renew the promises of EarthΓÇÖs crumbling cities; a journalist attempting to capture the violence of the streets; a marshal trying to solve a kidnappingΓÇöinto a richly urgent mosaic about race, class, gentrification, and who is allowed to be the hero of any history.

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