Greenland : a novel /
Santos Donaldson, David,
Greenland : a novel / David Santos Donaldson. - First edition. - 324 pages ; 22 cm
"A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel, in the vein of The Prophets, about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl--in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction"-- 1919: Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later: Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed's story. With a deadline in three weeks, Kim must immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their confrontations with Whiteness, homophobia, their upper crust education, and their white romantic partners. Mohammed's story begins to speak to Kip, and his life becomes a portal into Kip's own memories and psyche. -- adapted from jacket
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2021038031
GBC2C9609 bnb
020688571 Uk
Forster, E. M. 1879-1970 --Fiction.
Novelists--Fiction.
Fiction--Authorship--Fiction.
Gay fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.
LGBTQ+.
Greenland : a novel / David Santos Donaldson. - First edition. - 324 pages ; 22 cm
"A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel, in the vein of The Prophets, about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl--in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction"-- 1919: Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later: Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed's story. With a deadline in three weeks, Kim must immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their confrontations with Whiteness, homophobia, their upper crust education, and their white romantic partners. Mohammed's story begins to speak to Kip, and his life becomes a portal into Kip's own memories and psyche. -- adapted from jacket
9780063159556 0063159554 9780063159563 0063159562
2021038031
GBC2C9609 bnb
020688571 Uk
Forster, E. M. 1879-1970 --Fiction.
Novelists--Fiction.
Fiction--Authorship--Fiction.
Gay fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.
LGBTQ+.