How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Sagasti’s bold and original attempt to answer these questions. Roaming across time and geography, he lights on an eclectic array of characters and events that at first glance seem unrelated, and teases out their stories to reveal unexpected points of contact between them. Stanley Kubrick, Joseph Beuys, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Neil A ...
Man Booker International Prize 2018 —Longlist In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the entire house down. Given surprising leeway by her family for her increasingly erratic behaviour, she nevertheless feels ever more stifled and repressed. Motherhood, womanhood, the banality o ...
Winner of the Jose Saramago Prize (Portugal), Jabuti Prize (Brazil) and Anna Seghers' Prize (Germany), and a EnglishPEN Translates Award (UK), this is an impressive work by one of Brazil's rising literary stars. An unnervingly timely novel given the recent election of a far right President (Jair Bolsonaro) in that country, who has been nicknamed the 'Trump of the Tropics'. In the UK Fuks has already garnered media attention w ...
Франсуазу Саган называли Мадемуазель Шанель от литературы. Начиная с самого первого романа «Здравствуй, грусть!» (1954), наделавшего немало шума, ее литературная карьера складывалась блестяще, она с удивительной легкостью создавала книгу за книгой, их переводили на различные языки, и они разлетались по свету миллионами экземпляров.
Когда в 1985-м вышел ее роман «Прощай, печаль», писательница была полноправной героиней светской хроники, глянцев ...
Readers won’t need to have read Snotty Saves the Day to fall in love with Lily the Silent, which takes place next in the history of Arcadia, telling the story of the country’s first queen, Lily the Silent, through the eyes of her daughter Sophia the Wise. . . . .with the additions of a legend, an Arcadian fairy tale, and the story of how the book came to Exterminating Angel Press. With its winning female protagonists, accessible storyline, fant ...
“Look inside this world and find wonder.” —KATE BERNHEIMER, editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me and author of The Girl Who Wouldn’t Brush Her HairA book arrives by Owl, left under an old fir tree in the snow. With it, a mysterious message: another world’s scientists have discovered the laws of the universe are found in—fairy tales. Is it true?Snotty—the unlikely ...
This powerful, sweeping novel continues the saga of Dshurukawaa, the Tuvan shepherd boy introduced in The Blue Sky. Torn between the onset of visions and pressure from his family to attend a state boarding school, the adolescent attempts to mediate the pull of spirituality and pragmatism, old ways and new. Taken from his ancestral home, he reunites with his siblings at a boarding school, where his brother also serves as principal. Soon he comes ...
A Good Day to Die is a thought-provoking look into gang violence in Gary. The Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples square off in a winner takes all, do or die, non-stop brawl. James Hendricks leaks a true story from his cell. His depiction of gang life is rife with knowledge. The story comes alive through Jon and Don, twins and products of Gary, charting their rise to fame in the drug game. From stick-up kids to car thieves, they put in work and ge ...
Ivy League meets the streets in this vivid work of hip-hop fiction. As a senior at prestigious Columbia University and the girlfriend of a drug dealer, India Maldonado is living two seemingly opposite lives. As India tries to gain control over her relationship and navigate cultural and class boundaries, she is drawn down a dangerous path. India quickly learns that every action brings an unexpectedly brutal reaction and realizes that the perilous ...
