Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

If you would like to join the bookclub message Lydia or contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com and we can invite you to our whatsapp group.
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This months Book: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Readers’ Favorite Debut Novel (2021)

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists — he a photographer, she a dancer — trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.

At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53414230-open-water?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=DtWDjaI0Md&rank=1
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Our book club was founded in August 2022 by John Denys. We read Pride and Prejudice and have been very frequent ever since. We are a mixed group of all ages, genders, races and political backgrounds. We welcome all people and encourage interesting discussion without judgment. John Denys has now left Prague but the book club still continues today.

We select 3 books to read during the meeting, and then we meet on the first Saturday of each month at 16.00 to discuss