Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 10 september 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de debuutroman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Cebo Campbell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Cebo Campbell Sky Full of Elephants recensie, review en informatie
- “Replete with airline-less airports, sprawling mansions up for grabs, and an Alabaman monarchy, Sky Full of Elephants is a supremely imaginative exploration of family, loss, and the many roads to healing. Cebo Campbell gifts us a vivid odyssey full of possibility, proving that liberation doesn’t reside in the rejection of history, but in our embrace of it. This is a debut that dares us to tap into frequencies of freedom, to view ourselves as what we truly are and always have been: beings full of light worthy of love.” (Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck)
- “A captivating near future fantasy… Campbell’s depiction of their trek across an altered and occasionally nightmarish Southern landscape evokes Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD, and he caps the narrative with fascinating revelations about the cause of the event. This stunning allegory will spark much discussion.” (Publishers Weekly)
Sky Full of Elephants
- Auteur: Cebo Campbell (Verenigde Staten)
- Uitgever: Amerikaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
- Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
- Omvang: 304 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Cebo Campbell
In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black?
One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family.
Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search for answers. But neither of them are prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it.
Heading south toward what is now called the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor, Cebo Campbell’s astonishing debut novel is about the power of community and connection, about healing and self-actualization, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America, in both their world and ours.
Cebo Campbell is an author and creative director based in Brooklyn, New York. Winner of the Linda L. Ross Creative Writing Award and the Stories Award for Poetry, Cebo’s work has been featured in numerous publications. Cebo is the cofounder of the award-winning creative agency, Spherical, where he leads a team of creatives in shaping the best hotel brands in the world. Sky Full of Elephants is his debut novel.