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Overview"""Clarke is the real deal..."" --Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ""A tremendous new voice; a writer of immense talent and depth."" --Kirkus Reviews, starred review ""Sterling...a powerful" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maxine Beneba ClarkePublisher: Atria Books Imprint: Atria Books Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.80cm Weight: 0.177kg ISBN: 9781501140518ISBN 10: 1501140515 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 17 October 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsForeign Soil is a collection of outstanding literary quality and promise. Clarke is a confident and highly skilled writer. --Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rites Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller, and this collection - written with exquisite sensitivity and yet uncompromising - will stay with you with the force of elemental truth. Clarke is the real deal, and will, if we're lucky, be an essential voice in world literature for years to come. --Dave Eggers bestselling author of A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS Foreign Soil is a collection of outstanding literary quality and promise. Clarke is a confident and highly skilled writer. --Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rites Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller, and this collection - written with exquisite sensitivity and yet uncompromising - will stay with you with the force of elemental truth. Clarke is the real deal, and will, if we're lucky, be an essential voice in world literature for years to come. --Dave Eggers bestselling author of A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS Foreign Soil is a collection of outstanding literary quality and promise. Clarke is a confident and highly skilled writer. --Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rites A tremendous new voice; a writer of immense talent and depth. --Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW Sterling. . . a powerful view of the beauty and complexities of globalization. The tales take us from Britain's fiery Brixton community in the 1960's to modern-day Sydney, Australia. Each story paints a pastiche of the human condition with clarity, insight and creativity abetted by a confident and necessary international voice. --Essence Magazine Clarke is a magical writer whose ability to create so many very different people is absolutely uncanny. --Tonstant Weader Reviews A new voice to fiction comes with a new vision that all readers will find captivating and mind changing as she gives perspectives of those that have been neglected. --Sheen Magazine Stylistically bold, structurally innovative and brave in subject, confronting war, child soldiers, domestic abuse, gender identity, and political violence...Clarke writes with the lyricism of a poet... --BookBrowse Foreign Soil is a collection of outstanding literary quality and promise. Clarke is a confident and highly skilled writer. --Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rites Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller, and this collection - written with exquisite sensitivity and yet uncompromising - will stay with you with the force of elemental truth. Clarke is the real deal, and will, if we're lucky, be an essential voice in world literature for years to come. --Dave Eggers bestselling author of A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS A tremendous new voice; a writer of immense talent and depth. --Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW A new voice to fiction comes with a new vision that all readers will find captivating and mind changing as she gives perspectives of those that have been neglected. --Sheen Magazine Sterling. . . a powerful view of the beauty and complexities of globalization. The tales take us from Britain's fiery Brixton community in the 1960's to modern-day Sydney, Australia. Each story paints a pastiche of the human condition with clarity, insight and creativity abetted by a confident and necessary international voice. --Essence Magazine Clarke is a magical writer whose ability to create so many very different people is absolutely uncanny. --Tonstant Weader Reviews Stylistically bold, structurally innovative and brave in subject, confronting war, child soldiers, domestic abuse, gender identity, and political violence...Clarke writes with the lyricism of a poet... --BookBrowse Author InformationMaxine Beneba Clarke is a novelist, poet, and editor living in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to being a recipient of the Hazel Rowley Fellowship for Biography she is also the winner of the 2013 Victorian Premier's Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, the Debut Fiction Indie Award and the Literary Fiction Book of the Year in the Australian Book Industry Awards. Foreign Soil is Maxine's first book. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |