GROUND

561pp., paperback, Jacaranda, London, 2024

ISBN: 9781914344688

A novel set against a backdrop of growing isolationism and gentrification in post-Brexit London. Redesof, an acupuncturist in his forties, struggles to come to terms with his childhood of displacement, moving from the Congo to Italy to Britain.

Jadelin Gangbo is a writer and acupuncturist based in East London. He was born in Congo-Brazzaville in 1976 and moved to Italy at the age of 4 with his parents and 6 siblings. He has published numerous short stories and three novels in Italian. Ground is his first novel written in English.