Assembly

Resumen del libro

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FICTION AWARD 2021'Diamond-sharp, timely and urgent' Observer, Best Debuts of 2021'Subtle, elegant, scorching' Vogue'Virtuosic, exquisite, achingly unique' Guardian'I'm full of the hope, on reading it, that this is the kind of book that doesn't just mark the moment things change, but also makes that change possible' Ali Smith'Exquisite, daring, utterly captivating. A stunning new writer' Bernardine EvaristoCome of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment.

Step out into a world of Go Home vans. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things.

Buy a flat. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness.

But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going.

The narrator of Assembly is a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself.

As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?'One of the most talked-about debuts of the year . . .

You'll read it in one sitting' Sunday Times Style'Expertly crafted, remarkable, astonishing... A literary debut with flavours of Jordan Peele's Get Out' Bookseller, Editor's Choice'Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway meets Citizen by Claudia Rankine...

As breathtakingly graceful as it is mercilessly true' Olivia Sudjic'Bold and original, with a cool intelligence, and so very truthful about the colonialist structure of British society' Diana Evans 'This marvel of a novel manages to say all there is to say about Britain today' Sabrina Mahfouz

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Natasha Brownx{0026}lt;/strong (Londres, 1990) estudió Matemáticas en la Universidad de Cambridge y trabajó durante una década en el sector financiero de la City antes de emprender su carrera literaria, que la llevó a ser incluida en 2023 en la lista de Los Mejores Novelistas Jóvenes Británicos de la revista x{0026}lt;em Grantax{0026}lt;/em . Su aplaudido debut, x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Reunión x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (publicado en Anagrama) se tradujo a diecisiete idiomas y fue finalista, entre otros, del Premio Goldsmiths y el Premio Orwell de Ficción: La nueva voz literaria que necesitábamos (Víctor Fernández, x{0026}lt;em La Razónx{0026}lt;/em ); Incluso en tiempos como los actuales, de inflación editorial, en los que parece que surge una nueva Virginia Woolf o un nuevo Chéjov cada semana, no es exagerado decir que la de Brown fue una entrada triunfal en las letras británicas (Begoña Gómez Urzaiz, x{0026}lt;em La Vanguardia - Cultura/sx{0026}lt;/em ). Su más reciente novela es x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Los universalistasx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em .x{0026}lt;/p