![]() ![]() ![]() However, these are subjects that are probably of more interest to fellow countrymen familiar with some of these situations, leaving a good part of the work for the Brazilian public with information between the lines that may be without due understanding. With its theme involving a war and a broad criticism of the always controversial state of Texas, the political context, disguised in fiction, is blatant. It has received critical acclaim from Barack Obama as well as Oprah Winfrey, who included it as part of Oprah’s Book Club the novel was also awarded the 2021 Ernest J. It is obvious that the population does not sympathize with George's solution and quickly creates obstacles in his way, which over time become more and more dangerous.Ĭhosen for the Oprah's Book Club and widely publicized for being on the reading list of Obama and the long list of Booker Prize, The Sweetness of Water dominated the American public. The Sweetness of Water is the 2021 debut historical novel by author Nathan Harris. Prior to this, Oprah selected the novel for her book club. ![]() ![]() On 27 July, Nathan Harris’s The Sweetness of Water was announced as being on the Booker Prize longlist. He starts a new plantation to employ the boys, who work in his house in exchange for a salary so they can create a life outside of there. In The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris offers his readers a gorgeous exploration of race, emancipation, grief, and sexuality. With his son presumed dead in the war and his wife Isabelle grieving, George sympathizes with these brothers and harbors a strange need to keep them close. ![]()
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