LOTE

by Shola von Reinhold

Winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, 2021

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, 2021

“What was beyond doubt by the time I got back was that a new Transfixion had arrived in the form of Hermia Druitt, the woman in this photograph. This was confirmed by the sensations: flashes from Arcadia. Moonlight, of a kind, sighed up and down the tube of my spine, but above all, that indescribable note which accompanied all my Transfixions was present: humming beneath the high fine rush—probably not dissimilar to holy rapture—was an almost violent famili­arity. The feeling of not only recognising, but of having been recognised.

A new Transfixion.”

Shola von Reinhold’s lavish debut novel lays bare, through ornate, layered prose, the gaps and faultlines in the archive. Through obsessive research on an overlooked Black modernist poet, the narrator buckles under the vacuousness of the art world and also curates a queer historical scene, breaking it open and reveling in it. The novel was originally published in the UK by Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd. as part of the Twenty in 2020 Black British writers series.

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