![]() “I knew this was an explosive mix for fiction”, she says. It is a book about secrecy and self-protection, freedom and fear, history and the future, family and faith, repression and renewal.įor Evaristo, this extraordinary act of ventriloquism was necessary. ![]() Loverman, is her chef d’oeuvre a masterful dissection of the life of a 74 year-old, British-Caribbean gay man. Although Evaristo has always been an innovative stylist, her latest novel, the critically acclaimed, award-winning smash, Mr. ![]() ![]() In a revealing interview with Salon, Donna Tartt once said, “I had a fairly well-known editor tell me that The Secret History would never be published because no successful book by a woman had ever been written from the point of view of a man, and that I would have to change it to a female narrator.”Īlthough it’s tricky for both male and female writers to write from the point of view of the opposite gender, there have always been a number of tremendously talented and successful female authors who have not only risen to the challenge but, in doing so, have completely demolished deeply-embedded social codes that should not have existed in the first place.īritish-Nigerian novelist and poet, Bernardine Evaristo is not only a master of literary gender-bending but she’s also adroit at subverting well-worn tropes from slavery to stifled sexuality in a way that feels new, visceral, vital. ![]() Diriye Osman interviews Bernadine Evaristo author of Mr Loverman ![]()
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