Synopsis
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho.
The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do:
A wedding feast to conjure and cook
An infidelity to investigate
A lost soul to set free
As the sun rises two star-crossed lovers try to find their way back to one another across this single day. When night falls, all have been given a gift, and many are no longer the same. The sky is pink, and some wonder if it will ever be blue again.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- ISBN: 9780571358007
- Number of pages: 480
- Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 33 mm
- Weight: 757g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
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Something else
How do I explain This One Sky Day? It's more of an experience than a read. You want to devour it yet savour it, let it linger on the tongue. This is someth... READ MORE
Convoluted magical realism
Xavier runs a restaurant called the Torn Poem on the Popisho Islands. In this culture, people dying alone are doomed to wander as decomposing ghosts. Xavie... READ MORE
A magical world to lose yourself in
I don’t want to say too much about the detail of this book because immersing yourself in this world and slowly understanding what is happening around you i... READ MORE
Impenetrable!
I wasn't quite sure I understood this - it is told in a very quirky way and following the threads of what is happening is difficult. It is a fantasy, magic... READ MORE
Prose good enough to eat!
The sun rises on another day in the archipelago of Popisho, a place where the strange and
fantastic are routine. Over the course of this single day, the li... READ MORE
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A fever dream of a book with a centre deeply rooted and reflective of reality.
A beautiful book written with incredible skill and extraordinary imagination.
The island of Popisho is home to magical realism and is full of life. This i... READ MORE
Unusual
This novel includes several interlinked stories set on the beautiful island of Popisho during the course of one day. . The inhabitants of the island all h... READ MORE
Intriguing and memorable
The rich, evocative writing and high levels of magical realism in This One Sky Day, make for an intriguing and memorable story.
I struggled with the writing style
This is no reflection on this book, but it didn't work for me. I immediately struggled with the writing style, which I could clearly see was beautiful, and... READ MORE
A magical book
I bought this book after reading a review in the Guardian and was intrigued. I absolutely loved it, and became completely immersed in the lives of the peop... READ MORE
A strange but fascinating tale of magic and love
It took me a little while to get into this story, but once I did I was hooked on the strange island of Popisho and its equally strange inhabitants. Xavier,... READ MORE
magic realism at its best
This One Sky Day is a truly impressive and unique achievement. Wonderfully inventive, filled with colour, humour, a veiled sadness and surreal imagery. The... READ MORE
Sensually Strange and Weirdly Wonderful
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5 stars. A magical read but takes a little getting into.
It’s genuinely difficult to know where to start with this book. It’s strange and wo... READ MORE
This book is cinnamon and sugar and coffee and sumptuous fruit. It is wise like a woman, ferocious like a hurricane, sweet and bitter like the love between two lovers. It is flesh and spirit. A loud song and a lullaby. And it is perfect.
‘’When people die alone, without proper burial rites, the carcass wandered for years, rudderless, rotting and shrinking. They had all seen these ghosts, re... READ MORE
A feast for mind and body
Sparkling and sensuous.
On the mythical island of Popisho everyone has a magical gift, known as 'cors'. Still in mourning for his wife, Xavier yearns for ... READ MORE
Beautifully evocative
Really wonderful magic realism, at times not an easy read, you need concentration to follow the characters and what happens. Almost too complex to describe... READ MORE
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