· Critics and reviewers to date have understandably focused on the ubiquitous ideas about ‘twoness in oneness’ in this text (26a 42): on Evans’ engagement with traditional Igbo beliefs about twins (see Boehmer’s article); on the symbolic relationship between Georgia and Bessi and biracialism; dual national identity and two home places; on split versus unified consciousness, and so on. While Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Part fairytale, part nightmare, it moves from the mundane to the magical, the particular to the universal with exceptional flair and imagination. It is for anyone who has had a childhood, and anyone who knows what it is to lose one. It is a winner of the Orange New Writers Prize. Diana Evans won the British Books Awards Writer of the Year. Diana Evans is the award-winning, bestselling author of Ordinary People, The Wonder and 26a. Her prize nominations include the Guardian and Commonwealth Best First Book awards, and she was the inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers. A book of the year in the New Yorker, Ordinary People received the South Bank Sky Arts Award, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for .
In "26A", Diana Evans creates an interesting world of both fact and fiction. Through her skillful and vivid descriptions of paranormal forces and depiction of modern-day society, she makes the novel exciting and interesting to read. Although "26A" is largely based on the British literary tradition, the fact that Evans incorporates her. 26a. Diana Evans, Author. Morrow $ (p) ISBN From the very beginning of Evan's first novel (winner of Britain's inaugural Orange Award for New Writers), readers know. Read free book excerpt from 26a by Diana Evans, page 1 of 8.
26a. by Diana Evans. pp, Chatto, £ Twins and doubles have always proved irresistible to novelists, whether they embody the menacing multiplicity of the human psyche - as with Dostoevsky. Diana Evans is a British author of Nigerian and English descent. Her bestselling debut novel, 26a, won the inaugural Orange Award for New Writers and the British Book Awards deciBel Writer of the Year prize. I have been known to abandon books at rest stops in Georgia when it became clear that one of the sisters in the book was going to die. 26a is particularly sad because it’s someone losing her twin sister; and because Diana Evans herself lost a twin sister to suicide. 26a is a sad, specific book.
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