Greenland - David Santos Donaldson
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Theo Solomon
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Contemporary
Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adlin which Mohammeds story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction., In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammeds story., Kip has only three weeks until his publishers deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities dont end there. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their confrontations with Whiteness, homophobia, their upper crust education, and their white romantic partners. As Kip immerses himself in his writing, Mohammeds story a
