
Lote
Jacaranda Twenty in 2020
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Narrated by:
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Adjoa Andoh
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Zawe Ashton
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Aurora Burghart
About this listen
Part of the groundbreaking #TwentyIn2020 programme for Black British writing, Lote is an exquisite, genre-bending novel set in Scotland.
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and beauty, while interrogating the removal and obscurement of Black figures from history.
Solitary Mathilda has long been enamored with the ‘Bright Young Things’ of the 20s, and throughout her life, her attempts at reinvention have mirrored their extravagance and artfulness. After discovering a photograph of the forgotten Black modernist poet Hermia Druitt, who ran in the same circles as the Bright Young Things that she adores, Mathilda becomes transfixed and resolves to learn as much as she can about the mysterious figure. Her search brings her to a peculiar artists’ residency in Dun, a small European town Hermia was known to have lived in during the 30s. The artists’ residency throws her deeper into a lattice of secrets and secret societies that takes hold of her aesthetic imagination, but will she be able to break the thrall of her Transfixions?
From champagne theft and Black Modernisms, to art sabotage, alchemy and lotus-eating proto-luxury communist cults, Mathilda’s journey through modes of aesthetic expression guides her to truth and the convoluted ways it is made and obscured.
#TwentyIn2020 is Jacaranda Books' historical, groundbreaking initiative to publish 20 Black British writers in one year. The works include fiction, nonfiction and poetry, with the aim of normalising the presence of diverse literature by talented Black writers in the UK.
©2020 Shola von Rheinhold (P)2019 Audible, LtdThe Pride List of Queer Storytelling
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The narrator does a stunning job.
Masterpiece
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Fascinating
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Part history of esthetics part thriller, part poetry. There is also a Queer and trippy strand to the narrative. It all comes together into a rather beautiful whole.
I think it's the kind of novel you have to give yourself to rather than understand everything all the time.
This is a very unusual book
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Absolutely magnificent!!!
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Difficult to get into
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Mesmerising, unexpected, involved
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Shola von Rheinhold’s writing reminds me of the Emperor’s New Clothes. Let’s hope they/them have a plentiful supply of wool to keep pulling over they/them’s woke and gullible readerships’ eyes 👀
What an absolute pile of self aggrandising excrement
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Elitist non book
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