If I Survive You

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE'Dazzling' GUARDIAN'Blistering' THE TIMES'A delight' DIANA EVANS'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES
An electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.

aEURO~What are you?aEURO (TM)

This is the puzzled question that greets a young Trelawny growing up in a Miami where his racial ambiguity is regarded with confusion and suspicion. ItaEURO (TM)s not just his neighbours, his Jamaican parents Topper and Sanya donaEURO (TM)t seem to understand him either. Then thereaEURO (TM)s his stubborn older brother Delano, who is determined to secure a better future for his own children, no matter what it takes.

As both brothers navigate the challenges littered in their path aEURO" a woefully unreliable father, racism, recession and even a hurricane aEURO" they find themselves increasingly at odds. Will they make it through together or must one brotheraEURO (TM)s future come at the cost of the other?

Shortlisted for the 2024 Gordon Burn Prize

aEURO~An astonishingly assured debut novel aEURO| clarity, variety and fizzing proseaEURO (TM) BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES

aEURO~So damn funnyaEURO (TM) RUMAAN ALAM

aEURO~AstonishingaEURO (TM) I NEWSPAPER

'Utterly unstoppableaEURO (TM) IRISH TIMES

What readers say:

aEURO~So good it was hard to put downaEURO (TM)

aEURO~Humour, real feeling aEURO| totally recommendaEURO (TM)

aEURO~So engrossing and entertainingaEURO (TM)

aEURO~A must readaEURO (TM)

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780008501228
Published: September 2022

Number of pages: 272
Width: 135 mm
Height: 216 mm
Depth: 20 mm

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers