Noreen Masud
A Flat Place Paperback Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2024Raw and radical, strange and beguiling a love letter to Britains breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they containExpansive and arresting Financial TimesSharp, subtle and very moving Robert MacfarlaneNoreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes their stark beauty, their formidable calm, their refusal to cooperate with the human gaze. They reflect her inner world the flat place she carries inside herself, emotional numbness and memory loss as symptoms of childhood trauma. But as much as Britains landscapes provide solace for suffering, they are also uneasy places for a ScottishPakistani woman, representing both an inheritance and a dispossession.Pursuing this paradox across the wide open plains that she loves, Noreen weaves her impressions of the natural world with the poetry, folklore and history of the land, and with recollections of her own early life, rendering a startlingly strange, vivid and intimate account of a posttraumatic, postcolonial landscape a seemingly flat and motionless place which is nevertheless defiantly alive.Beautifully written and elegantly constructed Kamila ShamsieA Flat Place reminds us that there is hope in the smallest of gestures Sara AhmedSHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG...
Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BM; Weight: 292 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 24
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2024Raw and radical, strange and beguiling a love letter to Britains breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they containExpansive and arresting Financial TimesSharp, subtle and very moving Robert MacfarlaneNoreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes their stark beauty, their formidable calm, their refusal to cooperate with the human gaze. They reflect her inner world the flat place she carries inside herself, emotional numbness and memory loss as symptoms of childhood trauma. But as much as Britains landscapes provide solace for suffering, they are also uneasy places for a ScottishPakistani woman, representing both an inheritance and a dispossession.Pursuing this paradox across the wide open plains that she loves, Noreen weaves her impressions of the natural world with the poetry, folklore and history of the land, and with recollections of her own early life, rendering a startlingly strange, vivid and intimate account of a posttraumatic, postcolonial landscape a seemingly flat and motionless place which is nevertheless defiantly alive.Beautifully written and elegantly constructed Kamila ShamsieA Flat Place reminds us that there is hope in the smallest of gestures Sara AhmedSHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG...
Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BM; Weight: 292 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 24
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Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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