Three Rooms: 'A furious encapsulation of Generation Rent' OLIVIA LAING - Couverture souple

Hamya, Jo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1529114411 ISBN 13 : 9781529114416

Editeur : Vintage, 2022

Synopsis

Something about your generation I've noticed, she said not unkindly once I had fallen silent, is that you give up very easily.

Autumn 2018. A young woman starts a job as a research assistant at Oxford. But she can't shake the feeling that real life is happening elsewhere.

Eight months later she finds herself in London. She's landed a temp contract at a society magazine and is paying £80 a week to sleep on a stranger's sofa. As the summer rolls on, tensions with her flatmate escalate. She is overworked and underpaid, spends her free time calculating the increasing austerity in England through the rising cost of Freddos.

The prospects of a permanent job seem increasingly unlikely, until she finally asks herself: is it time to give up?

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PRAISE FOR THREE ROOMS
'I was bowled over by this barbed, supple book...spiky, unsettling.' OLIVIA LAING
'Cool, sharp and perceptive' Stylist
'Crisp and resonant' New Statesman
'A phenomenal achievement' The Times
'One of the most candid and subtle explorations of class by an English novelist in recent years' TLS
'A biting dissection of privilege, race, inequality and ideology in 21st century Britain' i
'Jo Hamya is an exceptionally gifted writer...slowly but surely broke my heart' CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT
'Intelligent, melancholy, funny and subtle' CHRIS POWER
'Both spectral and steeped in contemporary reality' OLIVIA SUDJIC
'Resigned to renting forever and feeling guilty every time you buy a cup of coffee? You'll want to read Jo Hamya's urgent and intelligent debut' EVENING STANDARD

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jo Hamya was born in London in 1997. Three Rooms is her first novel.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

It's autumn 2018 and a young woman moves into a rented room in university accommodation, ready to begin a job as a research assistant at Oxford. Here, living and working in the spaces that have birthed the country's leaders, she is both outsider and insider, and she can't shake the feeling that real life is happening elsewhere.

Eight months later she finds herself in London. She's landed a temp contract at a society magazine and is paying £80 a week to sleep on a stranger's sofa. Summer rolls on and England roils with questions around its domestic civil rights: Brexit, Grenfell, climate change, homelessness. Meanwhile, tensions with her flatmate escalate, she is overworked and underpaid, and the prospects of a permanent job seem increasingly unlikely, until finally she has to ask herself: what is this all for?

Incisive, original and brilliantly observed, Three Rooms is the story of a search for a home and for a self. Driven by despair and optimism in equal measure, the novel poignantly explores politics, race and belonging, as Jo Hamya asks us to consider the true cost of living as a young person in 21st-century England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529114411
• ISBN 13: 9781529114416
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie