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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Dystopische roman

Anna Moschovakis – An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth

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)

Anna Moschovakis An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth

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.

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Japanse roman, Japanse schrijfster, Science Fiction

Hiromi Kawakami – Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami Under the Eye of the Big Bird recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de sciencefictionroman van de Japanse schrijfster. Op 3 september 2024 verschijnt bij Soft Skull Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman van de uit Japan afkomstige schrijfster Hiromi Kawakami. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster, de vertaalster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Hiromi Kawakami Under the Eye of the Big Bird recensie, review en informatie

  • “Under the Eye of the Big Bird is a disquieting work of speculative fiction from celebrated Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami . . . [It] offers a poignant look at a dying civilization looking to rebuild . . . Kawakami poses questions about cloning, reproduction, identity, memory, and evolution, while also offering solutions to combat mankind’s downfall.” (Shannon Carlin, Time)
  • “It’s as if all of the stories Kawakami had accumulated inside her brain suddenly broke through its membrane and burst into the world. I have a feeling that Hiromi Kawakami will someday win the Nobel Prize.” (P+D Magazine)

Hiromi Kawakami Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

  • Auteur: Hiromi Kawakami (Japan)
  • Soort boek: Japanse sciencefiction roman
  • Engelse vertaling: Asa Yoneda
  • Uitgever: Soft Skull Press
  • Verschijnt: 3 september 2024
  • Omvang: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Japanse schrijfster Hiromi Kawakami

From one of Japan’s most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of reproduction, ecology, evolution, artificial intelligence, communal life, creation, love, and the future of humanity.

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of “Mothers.” Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings–but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist among the inhabitants of this faltering new world.

Unfolding over fourteen interconnected episodes spanning geological eons, at once technical and pastoral, mournful and utopic, Under the Eye of the Big Bird presents an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it.

Hiromi Kawakami was born in Tokyo in 1958. Her first novel, Kamisama (God), was published in 1994. In 1996, she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for Hebi o Fumu (Tread on a Snake) and in 2001 she won the Tanizaki Prize for her novel Sensei no Kaban (Strange Weather in Tokyo), which became an international bestseller. Strange Weather in Tokyo was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 International Foreign Fiction Prize. Kawakami has contributed to editions of Granta in both the UK and Japan and is one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists.

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Japan, Japanse schrijfster

Aoko Matsuda – Where the Wild Ladies Are

Aoko Matsuda Where the Wild Ladies Are recensie en informatie boek met Japanse feministische volksverhalen. Op 8 juni 2021 verschijnt bij Soft Skull Press de Engelse vertaling van het boek met feministische volksverhalen van de Japanse schrijfster Aoko Matsuda.

Aoko Matsuda Where the Wild Ladies Are recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van deze volksverhalen uit Japan, Where the Wild Ladies Are. Het boek is geschreven door Aoko Matsuda. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit boek van de Japanse schrijfster Aoko Matsuda.

Aoko Matsuda Where the Wild Ladies Are Recensie Japanse verhalen

Where the Wild Ladies Are

  • Schrijfster: Aoko Matsuda (Japan)
  • Soort boek: verhalen
  • Engelse vertaling: Polly Barton
  • Uitgever: Soft Skull Press
  • Verschijnt: 20 oktober 2020
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook

Flaptekst van hetmet feministische Japanse verhalen van Aoko Matsuda

In this witty and exuberant collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services—from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime.

A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. Where the Wild Ladies Are is populated by these and many other spirited women—who also happen to be ghosts. This is a realm in which jealousy, stubbornness, and other excessive “feminine” passions are not to be feared or suppressed, but rather cultivated; and, chances are, a man named Mr. Tei will notice your talents and recruit you, dead or alive (preferably dead), to join his mysterious company.

With Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda takes the rich, millenia-old tradition of Japanese folktales—shapeshifting wives and foxes, magical trees and wells—and wholly reinvents them, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged, and transformed by the only sometimes visible forces that surround them.

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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijfsters

Lucie Elven – The Weak Spot

Lucie Elven The Weak Spot recensie en informatie nieuwe Engelse roman. Op 9 februari 2021 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Soft Skull Press de nieuwe roman van de Engelse schrijfster Lucie Elven. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van deze roman verschenen of aangekondigd.

Lucie Elven The Weak Spot recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op de pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman The Weak Spot. Het boek is geschreven door Lucie Elven. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze roman van de Engelse schrijfster Lucie Elven.

Lucie Elven The Weak Spot Recensie

The Weak Spot

  • Schrijfster: Lucie Elven (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Soft Skull Press
  • Verschijnt: 9 februari 2021
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Paperback 

Flaptekst van de roman van Lucie Elven

A woman discovers something toxic at work in the isolated village where she is apprenticing as a pharmacist, in this fable-like novel about power, surveillance, prescriptions, and cures by a captivating debut voice.

On a remote mountaintop somewhere in Europe, accessible only by an ancient funicular, a small pharmacy sits on a square. As if attending confession, townspeople carry their ailments and worries through its doors, in search of healing, reassurance, and a witness to their bodies and their lives.

One day, a young woman arrives in the town to apprentice under its charismatic pharmacist, August Malone. She slowly begins to lose herself in her work, lulled by stories and secrets shared by customers and colleagues. But despite her best efforts to avoid thinking and feeling altogether, as her new boss rises to the position of mayor, she begins to realize that something sinister is going on around her.

The Weak Spot is a fable about our longing for cures, answers, and an audience–and the ways it will be exploited by those who silently hold power in our world.

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