Awards

• Long-listed for Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2022 (UK)
• Long-listed for Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022 (UK)
• Short-listed for BBC Short Story Award 2022 (UK)

Overview

At the border with another world, a line of people wait for the gates to open; on the floor of a lonely room, a Born Winner runs through his life's achievements and losses; in a suburban garden, a man witnesses a murder that pushes him out into the community. Struggling to realize the human ideals of love and freedom, the characters of Dark Neighbourhood roam instead the depths of alienation, loss and shame. With a detached eye and hallucinatory vision, they observe the worlds around them as the line between dream and reality dissolves and they themselves begin to fragment. Electrifying and heady, and written with a masterful lyrical precision, Dark Neighbourhood heralds the arrival of a strikingly original new voice in fiction. 'She has a rightful place in the tradition of surrealist, nihilistic writers such as Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Samanta Schweblin ... there are stories here that give shape to incoherence with a precision and style that is dazzling.' - Financial Times

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9781913097707

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'Onwuemezi's writing is a breath of fresh air. This collection is a marvel.' Daisy Johnson, author of SISTERS

Author Information

Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. Her work has appeared in Granta, Prototype, frieze and Five Dials. Her story 'At the Heart of Things' won the White Review Short Story Prize 2019.

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