USA rights 'Confrontations' by Simone Atangana Bekono sold to Bloomsbury in a pre-empt!
Published on 23 March, 2022 at 4:54 pm, updated on 24 March, 2022 at 11:45 am
Salomé Atabong, daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, arrives at a juvenile detention centre to start a six-month sentence for an as-yet-unspecified violent crime. Her thoughts, memories, interactions with fellow detainees and reluctant therapy sessions gradually reveal the confusion, anger and sorrow that swirl within her, fed not just by the casual and sometimes aggressive racism of her provincial hometown, but also by the tug of contending family influences.
Previously UK rights were sold to Serpent's Tail.
