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The Morningside: Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize
Tea Obreht
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There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to The Morningside.
When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place she was born and spent her early years; nor does she know why she and her mother had to leave. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to give a young girl glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland, a place of natural beauty and communal spirit that is lacking in Silvia's lonely and impoverished reality.
Enchanted by Ena's stories, Silvia begins seeing the world with magical possibilities, and becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside. Bezi Duras is an enigma to everyone in the building; she has her own elevator entrance, and only leaves to go out at night and walk her three massive hounds, often not returning until the early morning. Silvia's mission to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past, may end up costing her everything.
Startling, inventive, and profoundly moving, THE MORNINGSIDE is a novel about the stories we tell, and the stories we refuse to tell, to make sense of where we came from, and who we hope we might become.
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Praise for The Morningside: Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize
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I marvelled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht's prose ... The book surprised me most with its undercurrent of hopeDystopian fiction at its most unnervingly captivating - Daily MailThe author of The Tiger's Wife has done it again with this rich, dreamlike novel - i paperA powerfully imagined tale of exile, belonging and, ultimately, hope - Mail on SundayWith elements of folklore and magic realism, a moving exploration of the immigrant's tale whereby the daughter must instruct her mother in their new world - Irish Times
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