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Black Bread White Beer
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About the book
‘Niven Govinden brilliantly evokes the bleak comedy and deranged exhilaration of modern life. This is the sound of the suburbs’- Jake Arnott Amal is driving Claud from London to her parents’ country house. In the wake of Claud’s miscarriage, it is a journey that will push their already strained relationship towards a possible collapse. Over the course of twenty-four hours, Black Bread White Beer captures the inner lives of this thirtysomething, upwardly mobile couple as it deals with festering, unaddressed issues-mixed-race marriages, parental pressures, the tension between humanism and organized religion-and the loss of their unborn child. With Amal and Claud on the verge of true commitment and true adulthood, Black Bread White Beer casts a critical eye on a society in which, despite never-ending advances in social media communications, the young still find it difficult to communicate. Keenly capturing the abandon, selfishness, hazards and pleasures that come with giving your life to another, Niven Govinden has written a devastatingly honest and passionate portrait of a marriage.
Pages: 192
Available in: Paperback
Language: English
Niven Govinden
Niven Govinden is the author of three novels, most recently Black Bread White Beer, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Green Carnation Prize and longlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.