This Brutal House

Set across the arc of an active protest and the lives behind it - a group of...
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Author: Niven Govinden
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Language: English
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This Brutal House by Govinden, Niven

This Brutal House

¥4,056

This Brutal House

¥4,056
Author: Niven Govinden
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Set across the arc of an active protest and the lives behind it - a group of silent Mothers, and one of their children now working for the city - This Brutal House explores a group's resilience, trauma, and determination to hold truth to power.

On the steps of New York's City Hall, five aging Mothers sit in silent protest. They are the guardians of the Ballroom community - queer men who opened their hearts and homes to countless lost children, providing safe spaces for them to explore their true selves.

Through epochs of city nightlife, from draconian to liberal, the Children have been going missing; their absences ignored by the authorities and uninvestigated by the police. In a final act of dissent the Mothers have come to pray: to expose their personal struggle beneath our age of protest, and commemorate their loss until justice is served. Watching from City Hall's windows is city clerk, Teddy. Raised by the Mothers, he is now charged with brokering an uneasy truce.

With echoes of James Baldwin, Marilynne Robinson and Rachel Kushner, Niven Govinden asks what happens when a generation remembered for a single, lavish decade has been forced to grow up, and what it means to be a parent in a confused and complex society.



Author: Niven Govinden
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781646052677


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2023

About the Author
Niven Govinden is an award-winning writer of five novels. He was long-listed for the Jhalak Prize, and short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize (2019) and the Polari Prize (2020) for his most recent novel, This Brutal House. His last novel, Diary of A Film, was released in the UK by Hachette in 2021 and in the US by Deep Vellum in 2022 to great acclaim.

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