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The Swimmers 2022
The Swimmers is a 2022 novel written by American author Julie Otsuka and published by Knopf. This represents Otsuka's third novel, created and completed during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis. The work received the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in 2023.
In a 2022 interview, Otsuka described the book as deeply meaningful to her personally, explaining that the narrative events closely reflect her own life experiences including her mother's diagnosis with Pick's Disease and her interest in swimming. Otsuka stated, "the seed of the novel was really just my own life.
Details
- Publisher
- Knopf
- ISBN
- 9780593321331
- Pages
- 192
