Fiction
A Father's Discourse
by Ami Rao
Description
It takes him two hours to tell the story… the story of a fourteen-year old girl… the story of his daughter. His daughter who died.
When a girl dies in a car accident, returning home from school, her father is left to deal with his grief. Sent home from work for the crime of showing his emotions in front of strangers, he and his wife cannot bring themselves to utter their unspoken thoughts of guilt and blame. Alienated from the world and, to some degree, his own mind, and with his marriage slowly collapsing, the man starts to consider his grief.
With her beautiful and lyrical prose style, Ami Rao experiments with language to explore grief, one of the most complex of human emotions. Inspired by the essays of Barthes, this fragmented and philosophical novella is deeply moving.
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World, excl. UK and Ireland
Endorsements
Praise for Ami Rao's writing:
'Exquisite. Beautiful. Provocative. I love her writing.' — Jim Lawless, author of Taming Tigers
Author Biography
Ami Rao is a British-American writer. Born in Calcutta, India, Ami has lived and worked in New York, London, Paris, San Francisco and Los Angeles. She has a BA in English Literature and Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2017 she co-authored the sports memoir Centaur with Declan Murphy, published by Doubleday, which was awarded the General Outstanding Sports Book of the Year Award and shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2017.
Ami has mentored girls of colour for the past twelve years, with a keen emphasis on the merits of reading and education.
Her debut novel, David and Ameena, is published by Fairlight Books in February 2021.
Copyright Information
Copyright © Ami Rao 2021
Fairlight Books
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- Publisher Fairlight Books
- Publication Date October 2021
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781912054336
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 8.99 GBP
- Pages176
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- EditionFirst Edition
- Copyright Year2021
- Page sizeB Format (198 x 129) mm
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