EAN: 9780241994337

A FLAT PLACE - NOREEN MASUD KARTONIERT (TB)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S
PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE GUARDIAN  SUNDAY TIMES  NEW
YORKER Raw and radical  strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking
flatlands  from Orford Ness to Orkney  and a reckoning with the painful  hidden histories they
contain'Expansive and arresting' Financial Times'Sharp  subtle and very moving' Robert
Macfarlane'A Flat Place reminds us that there is hope in the smallest of gestures' Sara
AhmedNoreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their stark beauty  their formidable calm
their refusal to cooperate with the human gaze. They reflect her inner world: the 'flat place'
she carries inside herself  emotional numbness and memory loss as symptoms of childhood trauma.
But as much as Britain's landscapes provide solace for suffering  they are also uneasy places
for a Scottish-Pakistani woman  representing both an inheritance and a dispossession. Pursuing
this paradox across the wide open plains that she loves  Noreen weaves her impressions of the
natural world with the poetry  folklore and history of the land  and with recollections of her
own early life  rendering a startlingly strange  vivid and intimate account of a post-traumatic
post-colonial landscape - a seemingly flat and motionless place which is nevertheless defiantly
alive.

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