EAN: 9780241994337

A FLAT PLACE - NOREEN MASUD KARTONIERT (TB)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE
WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024   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    'S harp  subtle
and very moving' Robert Macfarlane   Noreen 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.   'Beautifully written and elegantly
constructed' Kamila Shamsie  ' A Flat Place reminds us that there is hope in the smallest of
gestures' Sara Ahmed   SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE
2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO
THE GUARDIAN  SUNDAY TIMES  NEW YORKER

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