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    Black Bread White Beer

    By Niven Govinden

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    OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012

    LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE

    Amal is driving his wife Claud from London to her parents’ country house. In the wake of Claud’s miscarriage, it is a journey that will push their relationship – once almost perfect – towards possible collapse.

    In this, his latest novel, Govinden casts a critical eye on a society in which, in spite of never-ending advances in social media communications, the young still find it difficult to communicate.

    A devastatingly passionate and real portrait of a marriage, ‘Black Bread White Beer’ keenly captures the abandon, selfishness, hazards and pleasures that come with giving your life to another.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateSep 6, 2012
    ISBN9780007503179
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    Niven Govinden

    Niven Govinden (born 1973) is an English novelist. He was born in East Sussex and then educated at Goldsmiths College where he studied film. He has written three novels. We Are The New Romantics was published by Bloomsbury in 2004. Graffiti My Soul was published by Canongate Books in January 2007 and Black Bread White Beer was published by The Friday Project in 2013. He has also written a number of short stories.

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