When We Were Birds
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Literary Fiction / Fantasy
When We Were Birds
by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
—· 256 p· 2022
hauntingreflectivemysterious
Overview
About
Winner of the BOCAS Prize for Fiction 2023 Winner of for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2023 Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023 Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2023 Shortlisted for the Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award 2023 Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2023 'BELIEVE THE HYPE' Stella 'A searing symphony of magic and loss, love and hope' Marlon James 'A mesmerising love story, achingly tender' Bolu Babalola Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arr…
Pages
256
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Prose9
Emotional depth9
Mythic Atmosphere9
Worldbuilding8
Narration8
Folkloric Resonance8
Pacing7
Plot twists6
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