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Dat's Love
Black Britain: Writing Back (Related to this series)
- Author
- Leonora Brito
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 5 October 2023
- Run Time
- 5 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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A brilliant collection of short stories from Leonora Brito exploring race, identity, and love
Leonora Brito was a writer of exceptional stories. In Dat's Love, she soaks up the sights, sounds and colours of Cardiff to boldly explore race and history.
With each electric story, Brito introduces a unique cast of characters, vibrantly elevating their everyday lives. From 59-year-old Dorothy taking up nude modelling to black aristocrat Dido Elizabeth Belle, from the assassination of JFK to what's going down at the Blue Bayou, Brito blends the surreal and the mundane to redress history and immerse the reader in a vibrantly painted world.
Containing an unusual exactness and sense of place, Brito's stories are unique in Welsh fiction in presenting an insider's perspective on a black Welsh history only alluded to by other writers. Full of wry humour and startling originality, this collection features some of Brito's most acclaimed work.
A title in the Black Britain: Writing Back series - selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.
©2023 Leonora Brito (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Scintillating . . . Dat’s Love conjures into being a vivid and vital picture of life in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay . . . Brito’s communicable zest for language fizzes like a seltzer . . . a high-water mark in Welsh fiction, with stories that have a real sense of a real place and stand proud on the shelf
Nation Cymru
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Outstanding . . . Leonora Brito shares stirring social observations that cut to the core of the human condition through intimate portraits of a diverse cast of characters. These are stories that stir the soul, quiver the heart, and quicken the brain
LoveReading
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Leonora Brito's perspective is utterly unique and her voice is remarkable. I feel incredibly lucky to have discovered this book and to have made this connection to her legacy
Orla Mackey, author of MOUTHING
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A collection that is sometimes funny and always highly original. Brito's narrators and characters are freetalkers and freethinkers with strikingly singular perspectives
Publishers Weekly
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The themes of race, community, a sense of place, history and identity (and specifically a Welsh identity) explored in Brito's writing are timeless and relevant as ever, making Dat's Love a must-read for everyone
Wales Arts Review
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Details
- Author
- Leonora Brito
- Narrator
- Bernardine Evaristo, Olivia Forrest
- Duration
- 5 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 October 2023
- ISBN
- 9781405959193
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Short stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Politics
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.A brilliant collection of short stories from Leonora Brito exploring race, identity, and loveLeonora Brito was a writer of exceptional stories. In Dat's Love, she soaks up the sights, sounds and colours of Cardiff to boldly explore race and history.With each electric story, Brito introduces a unique cast of characters, vibrantly elevating their everyday lives. From 59-year-old Dorothy taking up nude modelling to black aristocrat Dido Elizabeth Belle, from the assassination of JFK to what's going down at the Blue Bayou, Brito blends the surreal and the mundane to redress history and immerse the reader in a vibrantly painted world.Containing an unusual exactness and sense of place, Brito's stories are unique in Welsh fiction in presenting an insider's perspective on a black Welsh history only alluded to by other writers. Full of wry humour and startling originality, this collection features some of Brito's most acclaimed work.A title in the Black Britain: Writing Back series - selected by Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, this series rediscovers and celebrates pioneering books depicting black Britain that remap the nation.©2023 Leonora Brito (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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