Safe Spaces

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

239 kr

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Our unnamed narrator survives in London on a combination of Universal Credit, music production and songwriting, trying to figure out what she wants from the city, and whether the city is prepared to give it to her.Navigating love affairs and blinded by grief following the death of her closest confidante, Safe Spaces is a portrait of the artist as a young musician. Of the DJ booths, green rooms and dance floors that shape her, and the worlds she finds herself in: be they the grime and electronic nightclubs, her Turkish-Cypriot family, the beauty parlour, the studio.At once a songbook, a collection of aphorisms, a therapy transcript and a community journal, Safe Spaces is a work of extraordinary lyricism and candour, confirming Tice Cin as one of the foremost stylists of her generation. An intimate portrait of a community and a moving personal reckoning, it fearlessly asks: can the dream of a safe space ever be realised?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-09-10
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagGranta Books
ISBN9781803514161

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Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist from North London. Her debut novel Keeping the House (2021) was named one of Guardian's Best Books of the Year. It won a Society of Authors Somerset Maugham Prize, a London Writers' Award and was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, the Desmond Elliot Prize and the Jhalak Prize. Her films have been screened by Girls in Film and Worms Magazine and her music and poetry has been commissioned for Cartier, Montblanc and Mixcloud. Her BBC Radio 4 documentary How Much Can You Say? (2024) won an Audio Production Award.

Nothing about life is wasted on Tice Cin. Safe Spaces makes a universe of London in all its glory, cruelty, poetry and bureaucracy. This is a book that evokes the shattering effect of trauma on prose, then painstakingly reconstructs a way to experience life, and talk about love. I saw in it a feat of outstanding energy to keep looking, keep listening and, feel everything in a time of grief, and yet somehow overstate nothing