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ISBN-10: 1838852182
ISBN-13: 9781838852184
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publish Date: 04/18/2023
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 5.10" W, 0.90" H

Small Bodies of Water (Main)

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Price: $18.00

Overview

‘Remarkable’ Robert Macfarlane
‘Gorgeous’ Amy Liptrot
‘Urgent and nourishing’ Jessica J. Lee

Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London.

In lyrical, powerful prose, Small Bodies of Water weaves together memories, dreams and nature writing. Exploring everything from migration, food, family, earthquakes and the ancient lunisolar calendar, Nina reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and what it means to belong.

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A remarkable book . . . Its language trembles on the brink of poetry; these sentences have surety to their rhythms, subtlety to their weightings. Beautifully, dreamily, intricately, it explores movement, migration and memory. Identity, here, is experienced as liquid, as fluent. Small Bodies of Water was the winner of the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize, and it's my belief that Shepherd would have loved this book - and would have wanted to walk and swim with Nina, talking of all that her book brings to the surface–ROBERT MACFARLANE
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Details

ISBN-10: 1838852182
ISBN-13: 9781838852184
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publish Date: 04/18/2023
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 5.10" W, 0.90" H
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