Nina X

Winner of the 2019 Saltire Society Award for Fiction

Ewan Morrison

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English

Orion
09 April 2019

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

NINA X is loosely inspired by the real case of a tiny Maoist cult in London whose leader kept five women trapped for more than twenty years.

Nina X has no books, no toys and no privacy. She has nothing that might be described as love. Her closest emotional connection is with the birds she sees outside her bedroom window, when she is daring enough to remove the plasterboard that covers it. She has never been outside her small south London house. She has never met another child. She has no mother and no father; she has a Leader (a man), and she has three female comrades. The all-powerful Leader has named her The Project; she is being raised in total ideological purity, entirely separated from the false gods of capitalism and the cult of the self. He has her record everything in her journal, to track her thoughts; he makes her revise the entries obsessively, until they fit with his narrative. Her words are erased, over and over again.

By: Ewan Morrison
Imprint: Orion
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9780708899014
ISBN 10: 0708899013
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 09 April 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ewan Morrison is an outspoken and distinctive voice in British literature - a 'renaissance man' who makes films and acts as a cultural commentator and essayist. He is the author of a trilogy of novels: Swung, Distance and Menage and a collection, The Last Book You Read and Other Stories. He has been shortlisted for the Le Prince Maurice Literary Award and for Arena Magazine's Man of the Year. He is the winner of a Royal Television Society Award and has been nominated for three BAFTAs.