Reproduction
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dialogue
Published:23rd Sep '21
£8.99
Available for immediate dispatch.
WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family.
Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible imprint.
Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. An odd-couple relationship blooms between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications and reprisals for perceived and real offences that have some unexpected results.
Fast-forward, their son Armistice is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant son's fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters Felicia's life at a typically inopportune moment, the book's exhilarating final act is set in the motion and Reproduction is revealed.
Captivating . . . There's a fluidity and zest to Williams's insightful writing . . . A finely balanced novel -- Colin Grant * Guardian *
Vastly enjoyable . . . Top-notch comic dialogue makes this light-footed navigation of race and gender politics fizz on the page -- Anthony Cummins * Daily Mail *
[An] extremely funny Canadian debut about the decades-long fallout from an ill-advised hook-up between a young Caribbean student and an older white businessman, each grieving the loss of a parent. Pure pleasure, line after pitch-perfect line * Daily Mail *
- Winner of Giller Prize (Canada) 2019 (UK)
- Long-listed for International Dublin Literary Award 2021 (UK)
ISBN: 9780349701813
Dimensions: 196mm x 124mm x 32mm
Weight: 360g
464 pages