The Aquatics by Lewat, Osvalde

The Aquatics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781566897457)

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The Aquatics by Lewat, Osvalde

The Aquatics

$18.00
The Aquatics by Lewat, Osvalde

The Aquatics

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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An extraordinary novel of loyalty, strife, and empowerment from Peabody Award-winning Cameroonian filmmaker Osvalde Lewat.

In the fictional African country of Zambuena, Katm? Abbia enjoys a life of privilege and influence married to Tashun, the powerful prefect of Zambuena's capital. Yet after years spent playing the obedient, demure wife to a husband who has ceased to notice her, Katm? grows increasingly restless. Her one source of connection is Samy, a childhood friend, struggling artist, and gay man--an offense punishable by law in Zambuena. When Katm? discovers that Samy's new exhibition, funded by herself and Tashun, boldly critiques Zambuena's social and economic inequities, her public, married life is set on a collision course with her one true friendship. As social pressures and political rivals sow life-threatening consequences, Katm? faces an agonizing choice: abandon her friend or destroy her family.

Mixing compassion with clear-eyed fury and a keen sense of the absurd, The Aquatics confronts one of contemporary Africa's most entrenched societal issues in a story as immersive and inevitable as a quickly rising tide.

Author: Osvalde Lewat
ISBN-10: 1566897459
ISBN-13: 9781566897457
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2025
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
By Osvalde Lewat
By Osvalde Lewat
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Osvalde Lewat is a Cameroonian author. Osvalde is a renowned documentary filmmaker whose work has been awarded the prestigious Peabody Award. Her debut novel, The Aquatics, won the Pan-African Prize for Literature, the French Academy Literature Prize, and the Kourouma Prize.

Maren Baudet-Lackner is an American literary translator from the French who is passionate about bringing exceptional works of literature by traditionally underrepresented authors to English-speaking readers. She has published over a dozen titles with major imprints in the United Kingdom and United States and is the recipient of a 2023 PEN Presents Award and a 2024 PEN Translates Award. She also received Albertine Translation grants for her work in 2023 and 2024. Maren holds advanced degrees from Yale and the Sorbonne and lives near Paris with her family.

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