Anna Moschovakis An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth review recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman. Op 28 november 2024 verschijnt bij Soft Skull Press de nieuwe roman van de Grieks-Amerikaanse schrijfster Anna Moschovakis. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Anna Moschovakis An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth review recensie en informatie
- “Moschovakis’s hallucinatory writing constellates the mind’s obsessive recursions with precision. An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth undoubtedly raises the curtain to reveal her not-so-quietly standing among geniuses like Annie Ernaux, Joy Williams, and Clarice Lispector.” (Claire Donato, author of Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts)
An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth
- Auteur: Anna Moschovakis (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, dystopische roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Soft Skull Press
- Omvang: 208 pagina’s
- Verschijnt: 23 november 2024
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Anna Moschovakis
A formidable, uncanny, and utterly unique new work from accomplished novelist and poet, Anna Moschovakis, whose translation of David Diop’s Frêre d’âme (At Night All Blood Is Black, Pushkin and FSG) won the 2021 International Booker Prize.
After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk on ground that is in constant motion. When her alluring younger housemate, Tala, disappears, what had begun as an obsession grows into an impulse to kill, forcing the narrator to confront the meaning of the ruptures that have suddenly upended her life. The drive to find and eliminate Tala becomes an existential pursuit, leading back in time and out into a desolate, dust-covered city, where the narrator is targeted by charismatic “healing” ideologues with uncertain motives. Torn between a gnawing desire to reckon with the forces that have made her and an immediate need to find the stability to survive, she is forced to question familiar figurations of light, shadow, authenticity, resistance, and the limits of personal transformation in an alienated, alienating world.
Anna Moschovakis is a poet and translator whose most recent novel is Participation (2022, Coffee House Press). Other books include the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, and poetry books They, We Will Get Into Trouble for This and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has also translated Albert Cossery’s The Jokers, Annie Ernaux’s The Possession, and various others. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and co-founder of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, New York.