Description
An extraordinary debut, book-length poem from a significant young thinker on migratory histories, race and colonialism.
About the Author
Stephanie Sy-Quia was born in 1995 in California and now lives in London. She studied English at Oxford and currently works as a freelance journalist. Her writing has appeared in the FT Weekend, the TLS, the Economist, the Spectator and TANK magazine, and has twice been shortlisted for the FT Bodley Head Essay prize.
Reviews
Amnion is unlike almost anything I've read - so alive it seems to squirm to the touch. Couched as biography - with numerous family stories unspooling through time - it resists neat threads, continually unravelling and questioning itself [...] Here a non-white female artist comes of age, taking the European tradition and reshaping it to fit a polyglot, postcolonial experience. -- Will Harris, author of RENDANG
A brilliant and beautiful book which wrestles with the scope and ache of lineage, the origin and myth and making of ourselves. -- Rachel Long, author of My Darling from the Lions
Sy-Quia's bold Kunstlerroman mesmerisingly transports us across continents and through the longing of diasporas, arriving in England, a "deep bone-knowing country/Albion -- Sandeep Parmar, Books of the Year * New Statesman *
Rich and fluid... brightened by a charming, breezy sense of humour * TLS *
Book Information
ISBN 9781783787746
Author Stephanie Sy-Quia
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Granta Books
Publisher Granta Books
Weight(grams) 170g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 131mm * 11mm