Eleven: We Burn Them in the Sun moves by drift and intuition: one thought into another, one person into another, one moment into … It’s an audacious re-reckoning of what nonfiction can hold – its limits, its freedoms – and a reimagining of nonfiction’s velocities. From the slow decline of West Indies to the freakish minute that might have prevented it, the dreams that stay vivid by disappearing on Newcastle’s streets, Darwin’s, Christian Ryan, award-winning author of Golden Boy, reconstructs forgotten, fragile moments with breathtaking care. The result is a wildly ambitious, compulsively readable exploration of the strange, luminous ways cricket shapes a life, sizzling with humour and verve and tragedy.
