Consequently if you are not from a particular place you will always be vulnerable for the reason that it doesn't matter how many years you have lived there you will never have a side of the story nothing with which you can hold the full force of the history of a particular place at bay.Īnd so it comes at you directly, right through the softly padding soles of your feet, battering up throughout your body, before unpacking its clamouring store of images in the clear open spaces of your mind.Īnd shimmered across the pale expanse of a flat defenceless sky.Īll the names mean nothing to you, and your name means nothing to them. And it's as if the history of a particular place knows all about this blankness you contain. You have no stories to relate and compare, you have no narrative to inherit and run with, and all the names are strange ones that mean nothing to you at all. A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. Your connection to certain events that define the history of a particular place is not straightforward because none of your ancestors were in any way involved or affected by those events. Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett: 9780399575907 : Books A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at.
“If you are not from a particular place the history of that particular place will dwell inside you differently to how it dwells within those people who are from that particular place. Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett is published by Jonathan Cape (14.99).
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