{"title":"Our Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sonic-peace","title":"Sonic Peace","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Kiriu Minashita\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Spencer Thurlow and Eric Hyett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSonic Peace is a work of extreme genius and unassailable critique, fused with beauty and lightheartedness: a love story set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 5, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781944700409\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Even while boasting of its rapid strength and speed,” Kiriu Minashita says in the afterword to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSonic Peace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, “the world is being ecstatically eroded by the violent rewriting of meaning.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSonic Peace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a work of extreme genius and unassailable critique, fused with beauty and lightheartedness: a love story set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic Tokyo. 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Set in a bizarro, all-too-real imaginarium of American pop culture, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoney, I Killed the Cats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e introduces us to two independent young women struggling to live the lives that television and glossy magazines have promised them. In a collision of street slang and mass-media sloganeering, Masłowska’s electrifying prose drives a propulsive story about spiritual longing in a dispirited world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMasłowska’s novel examines the ways we attempt to exist and find meaning in lives defined by what we buy. In this warped world saturated by advertising and materialism, where everything can be bought, from personality and physical traits to religion and self-fulfillment, Joanne and Farah, two very different women form a friendship both bonded in and ultimately destroyed by the manipulations of consumer culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eJoanne has everything the commercials say you should want—confidence, a carefree life, happiness to excess. Farah is a self-loathing, envious, germophobic malcontent. Through a shared metaphysical dream experience that spills over into their increasingly troubled day-to-day lives, these best friends find themselves consumed by their equal-and-opposite obsessions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWidely regarded as Polish literary sensation Masłowska’s best novel yet, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoney, I Killed the Cats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a powerfully emotional, hilariously grotesque satire of Western consumer culture and the trends that go along with it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Masłowska here describes a terrifying funhouse abounding with toxic friendships, ominous takes on consumerism, and grotesque moments of violence and general discomfort…The tone is broadly satirical throughout, but it’s the variety with fangs — sometimes literally.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tobias Carroll, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMystery Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Dorota Masłowska is a mistress of the startling metaphor and her heroine is certainly not the stuff of chick lit.  She appears in dreams (her own and those of her friends and neighbours) pyjama bottoms dripping with blood – yes honey, she has killed the cats. And she hardly need a hero to come and save her from drowning, does she? If this gloriously strange book sounds like your sort of thing, give Benjamin Paloff’s translation a go…” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kate Sotejeff-Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Dorota Masłowska’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoney, I Killed the Cats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e doesn’t read like a novel, but rather a sequence of tabs on an internet browser, each one a minor digression into a deeper chaos. Written in 2012 by one of Poland’s leading young authors, Benjamin Paloff’s lively translation is distinctly 2019, as if constructed solely from a digital-era dictionary.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Matt Janney, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Calvert Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Paloff is able to preserve Maslowska’s energy and surprising wordplay in this translation, and the prose brings life to the setting in a way that energizes the story…” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ambrose Mary Gallagher, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Masłowska’s latest is a sucrose-loaded simulacrum for the American monoculture, recklessly scrambling barbed sarcasm with irreverent sight gags to stupendous effect. A knives-out dissection of aesthetic vulgarity that refuses to be calmed, corralled, or otherwise contained. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoney, I Killed the Cats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is delightfully demented fun.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Justin Walls, Powell’s Books at Cedar Hill Crossing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A wild, technicolor send up of culture and consumerism.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Caitlin Luce Baker, Island Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A grossly all-too-accurate satire of American consumer culture and those frantically swiping their plastic (in hopes of some kind of meaning) inside of it. Hilarious and biting. A scream.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Traci Thiebaud, Brazos Bookstore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Slim and ferocious, Masłowska’s novel is a wild trip from beginning to end.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“So absurdly extended—and so deranged in its detail—that it’s genuinely funny.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e— \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“She is the hope of Polish literature.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Paloff deserves to be commended. His translation is as transparent as possible, literal without being wooden, lively yet not artificially so. Maslowska’s linguistic vigor communicates itself to English-language readers so readily that we are caught up in the quick current of her prose before we even know what the book is about.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Magdalena Kay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorota Masłowska\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a Polish writer, playwright, and journalist. She is the recipient of the prestigious Polityka Prize for her debut novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e(Snow White and Russian Red, Grove Atlantic), published when she was just 19 years old. The book garnered massive critical acclaim in Poland, has been translated into dozens of languages, and was made into a movie directed by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eXawery Żuławski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Since then, she has written several novels and plays and has become a celebrated literary figure in Poland. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoney, I Killed the Cats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, her second novel to be published in English, has been adapted for stage and portions were made into a short film directed by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e Marcin Nowak\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. She currently resides in Warsaw.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Paloff \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ereceived his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 2007. 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In language that is as delicate as it is fierce, Tikkanen explores the depths of fear and violence that often accompany addiction and the struggle to reconcile that pain with the deep love and strength necessary to hold a family together through it all. As much a story of resilience as it is suffering, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Love Story of the Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a bittersweet account of the complexities of addiction, the power of creativity, and the redemption of love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMärta Tikkanen\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1935) is a Finnish-Swedish journalist, writer, and teacher. 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Poetry that bites, poetry that stings, poetry that takes you to the darkest places in order to beat you down, and poetry that picks you back up again.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Zachary Jensen, \u003cem\u003eAngel City Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43823697592569,"sku":"9781944700089","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/Smoothtalkingdog_1.jpg?v=1597073090"},{"product_id":"stormwarning","title":"Stormwarning","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic by K.B. 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This collection, lyrical and imagistic, where between death and silence is remembrance, where shadow after shadow resides, ‘whispers: guess who it is…’ And the poet leaves us wondering because it is wonder that takes us closer to love’s many versions, to an intimacy weaved in nation and exile. The poems in this unforgettable collection ground us, and give us flight.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Nathalie Handal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To put it simply, Lyn Coffin’s words are beautiful and brimming with potency, because Mohsen Emadi’s words are beautiful and brimming with potency.” \u003cstrong\u003e—John Venegas, \u003cem\u003eAngel City Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e9\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeath is when the heart does not beat and the clock beats.\u003cbr\u003eLove is when the heart beats and the clock does not beat.\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps this simple comparison explains\u003cbr\u003ewhy you glanced at your watch.\u003cbr\u003eYou knew that waiting is the dense endurance of eternity\u003cbr\u003eand love, the miracle of mortals,\u003cbr\u003emakes eternity ashamed,\u003cbr\u003ebut death does not wait for anybody.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe long summer afternoon\u003cbr\u003ewas going down on coffins and clock towers\u003cbr\u003ethe ruins knew\u003cbr\u003eand you did not know\u003cbr\u003ethat war makes waiting invalid\u003cbr\u003eand saving life\u003cbr\u003ethe whole Truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWas she dead?\u003cbr\u003eHad she fled without you?\u003cbr\u003eOr you were not in love anymore?\u003cbr\u003eThe dead were not answering.\u003cbr\u003eThe living were escaping\u003cbr\u003eand love from then on\u003cbr\u003ebeat within\u003cbr\u003ethe pulsing of a clock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBorn in Iran, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMohsen Emadi \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis the award-winning author of four collections of poetry published in Iran and Spain. 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Previously, she worked in London as \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e magazine’s global publicist and in Los Angeles as an editor at the AVN Media Network, where she reported on the business of sex work and adult pleasure products. 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When night falls they become “the boys”: the anonymous observers. \/… \/…the borders of existence are – and must be permitted to be – so much larger than the volume restricted by the skin.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eExpressen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m super excited about it… This is going to be one of those power-packed little books.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eInk and Paper Blog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGirls Lost \u003c\/em\u003eis captivating as its three leads explore the universal challenges of teenage angst, conflicts between perception and reality, and the power of another’s gaze to free or entrap you.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eForeword Review, \u003c\/em\u003eKristen Rabe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful novel about gender, sexuality and power relations that will have you turn page after page without even realizing it. 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Multitudes of snowflakes, tiny as sparks, keep flying into the beam and swirling around like burning gunpowder. The factory workers hurry home in this freezing cold, holding their breath, to ring in the New Year. The snow doesn’t just crackle under their feet, it actually squeals. In this kind of cold, breathing is impossible: you might as well try to breathe black pepper. It feels like the snow would catch fire if you held a match to it. And no looking up, either, not a chance, although if you do go ahead and try to lift your frost-burned face you’ll see a red banner over the entrance, and white letters, and above them the spotlight’s beam, drilling through the murky, sleepy sky over the Narva Outpost all the way into outer space, although its target really isn’t outer space at all, but the clock on the Central Tower, that’s what! 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A woman returns early from a lovers’ retreat to a bottle of pills at home. And how should you explain the nuances of contemporary Paris to your mother, twenty-five years dead? Valérie Mréjen's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Forest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a book of mourning that isn’t morbid or sentimental, but rather an elegant and wryly humorous brace against the void. With a paradoxically detached intimacy, Mréjen follows death’s dark and twisted path through the lives it touches, wringing out every possible meaning—or non-meaning—along the way. A writer at the height of her career who draws comparisons to Georges Perec and Nathalie Sarraute, Mréjen has cemented her status as an auteur with a singular voice, guiding us through the Black Forest of ghosts that populate her subconscious.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eValérie Mréjen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, filmmaker, and mixed media artist. She has written five novels, most recently \u003cem\u003eTroisième personne\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), and exhibited widely in France and abroad, including in a solo retrospective at the Jeu de Paume gallery in Paris. She is an alumna of residencies at Villa Medici in Rome and Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto. Mréjen’s first feature-length film, \u003cem\u003eEn ville\u003c\/em\u003e, co-directed with Bertrand Schefer, was a Director’s Fortnight selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, and her children’s play, \u003cem\u003eTrois Hommes Verts\u003c\/em\u003e, premiered at the Théâtre Gennevilliers in 2014. More information, including many of her films, can be found online at http:\/\/valeriemrejen.com\/folio.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatie Shireen Assef\u003c\/strong\u003e is a literary translator living between Los Angeles and Arles, France. \u003cem\u003eBlack Forest\u003c\/em\u003e is her first full-length translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed one of \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e‘s Best Books of 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for \u003cem\u003eBig\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eOther\u003c\/em\u003e's Book Award for Translation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mréjen’s crystalline prose never grasps for sentimentality, and her meticulous, humane, and powerful volume unforgettably depicts the way the dead experience life after death in the traces they leave in the minds of the living.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Filmmaker and novelist Valérie Mréjen has an eye that cuts and chisels. Nothing escapes her intuitive vigilance…With her, details are isolated and become powerful revealers of truth. Between life and death, in the tradition of Nathalie Sarraute, she seeks to write in the very place where consciousness, emotion, and reason are born, and then fade… she shows that absence can also be a form of presence.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Marine Landrot, \u003cem\u003eTélérama\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A sentence by Valérie Mréjen never pushes, rather glides along the page like on silk… Mréjen puts her finger on the wound, as delicately as possible.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Eric Chevillard, \u003cem\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If Valérie Mréjen were only a filmmaker, she could have been called Chantal Akerman.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Jean-Luc Douin, \u003cem\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[This writer] who always wields the verb with finesse and economy surprises us this time with its dark side— The subject here is death.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eElle France \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A masterful and delicate book…Mréjen approaches deeper waters and navigates them with a sensible and offbeat touch that lands her among the greats. ” \u003cstrong\u003e—A.N., \u003cem\u003el’Humanité\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The narrator of Valérie Mréjen’s \u003cem\u003eBlack Forest\u003c\/em\u003e recounts a series of deaths, offering a kind of jeweled omnibus of ways to die, in a classy, glassy prose recalling miniaturists par excellence Lydia Davis, Michael Martone, and Robert Walser – think \u003cem\u003eSix Feet Under\u003c\/em\u003e via Renata Adler’s.” \u003cstrong\u003e—John Madera, novelist and editor of \u003cem\u003eBig Other\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In seventy-two pages (including translator’s note), Mréjen stalks no less than great Death itself, in all its various tragic or capricious or mundane or shocking or brutal or funny guises.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThree Percent\u003c\/em\u003e, Christopher Phipps\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBlack Forest \u003c\/em\u003eis a sparse and elegiac novel. Its unrelenting focus on a subject we’d often prefer not to think about makes it a sort of memento mori. Through the scale and disparate passings presented, Mréjen reminds us that while for all of us the moment will come when we pass, death can be a unifying moment rather than just an alienating one. That those who succeed us will do whatever they can and push on. That wherever death might find us, there is also life.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKenyon Review, \u003c\/em\u003eIan J. Battaglia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA man is at home one afternoon. He attempts to carry out a number of actions in a particular order, focusing on their progress. His gaze is drawn to the window overlooking the street, and he takes in the people coming and going, their shoulders pulled down by various loads: bags of all sizes, overcoats, trenches. Legs carry these bodies composed and comprised of organs, some of which function better than others; legs continuously cross paths, legs march on; heads nod, ruminating over a thousand disparate things, and hair swings forward and back. Anonymous heads of hair shine in the pale, cold light of the winter sun, curling, lifting in cowlicks, fading, and becoming streaked with white strands— just a few at first, then many, if only they’re given the time and the chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe man in the apartment decides he is old enough. He takes the disco ball down from its beam and in its place ties a rope, which he likely found in the hardware section of the bric–a–brac shop not far from his building. He loops it around his neck and, standing on the stepladder, now observes the room from high up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething startles the downstairs neighbors—a noise like metal hitting a concrete floor— and they freeze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn one December 31st, this man’s birthday, a family is getting ready for a New Year’s Eve party. The divorced father and his three children are invited to the house of a friend of their stepmother’s. They won’t know anyone there and fear they’ll be terribly bored. In a lavish apartment resembling the set of a TV movie, a young, newly–hired maid will have tried to add a festive touch to the decor by placing tiny baskets of artificial flowers on openwork tablecloths, tablecloths that will give the hosts occasion to meticulously recount their bargaining sessions at markets in poor countries. The absurdly low price that had been obtained through persistence will be brandished like a victory. Yet, considering the ugliness of the spoils, it will seem still too much to the eldest child, a nervous, aloof teenager who feels uneasy in this company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore heading out to the party, the family must change into nicer clothes. The outfits chosen by the youngest two aren’t chic enough: they didn’t bring with them any perfectly ironed new shirts, nor flannel trousers or little English blazers. They do not, for that matter, own such clothing, since their father hates spending Saturdays at department stores and doesn’t know of any other, more fashionable places to shop. Every now and again, he takes them to an obscure boutique in the wholesale district, where a man who smells of eau de toilette and claims to have known them since they were babies makes them try on parkas too poorly cut to look like the ones in the window display, and cheaply made shoes imitating the latest styles. They don’t dare object, and the fitting is always an ordeal. They leave with pleated pants made of itchy fabric that zip so tightly they can hardly breathe, all rolled up into plastic bags whose rigid snap–seals never close completely and whose sharp–edged handles leave red and white marks on their palms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so it is decided that they will stop by their mother’s, who is out of town for the weekend with her lover. This is how the father refers to this man whom he doesn’t know, \u003ci\u003elover\u003c\/i\u003e, though the divorce was finalized years ago and he, too, is involved with someone new. The father has a friend; the mother sees her lover. The family drives down deserted alleys lit by gas lamps, through a wealthy neighborhood where the broad avenues are lined with hundred–year–old chestnut trees, to a duller suburb full of one–way streets. They pull up to a house and the children are asked to hurry, or so they gather from their father’s exaggerated sigh. The brother begins to insert his key into the star–shaped keyhole and senses, from the absence of pressure, that the door isn’t locked. Someone has been here before them. There’s a light on in the kitchen; the warm halo of recently installed sconces has been illuminating the white wall for several hours. On the tiled floor, they see the pieces of a broken plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey call out, wait for a response, and climb the first flight of stairs; they understand, of course, that none of this is normal. In the room at the end of the hallway, a presence awaits them: a woman who looks exactly like their mother, in a state resembling sleep, lies in a nightgown under the covers. They recognize the fake fur bedspread, the two antique nightstands perched on slender, graceful feet, the mysterious marquetry drawers inside which they’ve always hoped to find a surprise and instead only come upon little ivory or burlwood boxes containing their yellowed baby teeth split neatly in halves, or an old sewing kit—things already familiar to them. On the pillow, the waxy face appears calm, the half–closed eyes pointed toward a spot on the ceiling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35464856273059,"sku":"9781944700904","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35464856305827,"sku":"9781646050215","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/043-Black_Forest.jpg?v=1596660709"},{"product_id":"sphinx","title":"Sphinx","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/deepvellum.org\/authors\/anne-f-garreta\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/deepvellum.org\/authors\/anne-f-garreta\/\"\u003e \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne Garréta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated from the French by Emma Ramadan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecipient of the French Embassy's Hemingway Grant for Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eApril 21, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 9781941920091\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeBook:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 9781941920084\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, \"I,\" and their lover, A***, written without using any gender markers to refer to the main characters, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a remarkable linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that has never been accomplished before or since in the strictly-gendered French language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a landmark text in the feminist, LGBT, and experimental literary canons appearing in English for the first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNominated for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Staff Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's Top 50 Independent Books of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEntropy Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's Best Fiction Books of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBookriot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's 100 Must-Read Books Translated from French\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDallas Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's \"13 Books to Read This Summer\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeatured in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOff The Shelf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's \"12 Innovative Books to Get You Out of Your Reading Rut\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIncluded in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's \"23 Books in Translation by Women Writers\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux editor Jackson Howard's Favorite Books of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Sphinx challenges automatisms, identification mechanisms, and the urgent need for gender categorization. The absence of linguistic gender acts as a mirror reflecting back the reader’s projections.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Gaëlle Cogan, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"[Garreta's] been called influential and groundbreaking, and with this, her first translation into English, it is easy to see why. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is an important contribution to queer literature—fascinating, intelligent, and very welcome.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"A unique novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e succeeds in telling a love story without names or genders, allowing the reader to interpret the novel however they wish. Set in Paris and calling to mind the work of James Baldwin, this both feminist and LGBT book is deeply evocative in its word usage as it celebrates love without the constraints of gender.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Garréta’s removal of gendered grammar is less an indictment of gender—or sign-bearing bodies—and more of a narrative challenge, a queering of language. This is also to say \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is less of a queer romance novel than it is a poetic queering of love itself.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Meghan Lamb, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Collagist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“The set-up is such a classic, relatable tale of falling in — and out — of love that one wonders why gender has always been such a huge factor in how we discuss relationships, in fiction and otherwise. . . . So, the author, and the translator, created their own language, championing love and desire over power and difference.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Maddie Crum, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e highlights the already limiting nature of language when it comes to matters of gender, and of love.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Stephanie Hayes, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“The strength of [\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e] lies in its philosophical eloquence . . . Take away gender and race from the book, and what’s left? Love, viewed as a nihilistic transcendence . . . considerably more than a language game.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Adam Mars-Jones, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is an almost effortlessly readable, atmospheric love story, like a Marguerite Duras novel starring a pair of genderless paramours who haunt the after-hours clubs and cabarets of Paris. The conceit is so simple and so potent that it’s impossible to get too far without pondering big questions about the role gender plays in the way we think about love in literature — and in life.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Judy Berman, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“In this sense, just as the novel is genderless, it is also genderfull . . . Garréta finds endless shades of in between and out of bounds, her characters taking shapes no other text before—or since—has imagined.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Lauren Elkin, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Centering her tale on the love and lust of a young couple in the Parisian underworld allows Garréta to train our eyes on the physical beauty of youth, the sensuality of anonymous bodies, and our preconceptions regarding both. The bodies of je and A***, left bare of gender markers, create the need for a new, more vigilant kind of reading that involves a constant undoing of assumptions. They cry: Read yourselves, not just us.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jane Yong Kim, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“However, the fragments that do surface from this unconscious reservoir are vividly and eloquently incarnated. This is particularly true of the prose around lights, music, and bodies—the primary elements that compose nightclubs. They are rendered in rapturous tones . . . I could go on—exquisite fragments like these are packaged in nearly every page.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—John Taylor, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"The body may be divine, but it can only be seen in such close focus that individual limbs can hardly be distinguished: we are left with flesh and bone, plus a few spinning hormones.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Joanna Walsh, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe National\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Garréta’s stylistic experiment has been carried out at once boldly and discreetly — it is difficult not to be lured into the story . . . [Emma Ramadan] has skillfully brought this thought-provoking novel to the English-reading world, where it has long been overdue.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—John Taylor, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Arts Fuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Untethered from the genre you’ve unconsciously assigned it, the story expands. Love, like the universe has a way of doing that. And yet you sense a helplessness in the narrator to try, like you were, to pin something down.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Leah Dieterich, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Art Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"The biggest surprise is Anne Garréta, whose novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, first published in 1986, explores DJ culture, gender and sexual politics in Parisian nightclubs. The two main characters are the narrator and their lover A***...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (available in Emma Ramadan’s 2015 English translation) is ahead of its time, a radical bridge between Kathy Acker, the “chemical generation” authors of the 90s, and emerging innovators such as this year’s Goldsmiths prize-nominated Isabel Waidner.\"  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Tony White, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI never alluded to what I had so indistinctly perceived in my sleep, and neither did A***. There were always inexplicable silences between us, a sort of prudishness or reserve that kept us from broaching certain intimate subjects. We kept the evidence hidden away, even avoiding the use of expressions that seemed improper, excessive, or bizarre. A*** would never show any immoderate affection, and I was constantly forcing myself not to criticize the escapades I witnessed. Once, only once, I was weak enough to reveal my jealousy, which had been gnawing away at me. In the same vein, A*** only once slipped in showing tenderness toward me, using words and gestures that we had never before allowed ourselves to use.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis single jealous episode took place in the dressing room of the Eden where, one night, I came upon A*** in the company of a man I had seen fairly often in the wings the previous week, whom I suspected to be A***’s latest lover. Normally I pretended not to give a damn about the goings-on of A***’s libido; the number and nature of A***’s escapades were none of my business. What right did I have to be jealous, since there was nothing between us other than platonic affection? But that night I could not bear to see this lugubrious cretin, in the seat that I habitually occupied, engaged with A*** in the sort of conversation I had thought was reserved for me alone. This substitution outraged me: the idea that in my absence someone could take my place, could be the object of identical attentions. I was willing to admit that I was not everything for A***, but I refused to accept that what I was, achieved through a hard-fought struggle, could be taken over by someone else, and apparently by anyone at all. The sole merit of the lover in question was his idiocy: his inane conversation was doubtless a nice break from the thornier discussions A*** and I typically had. A*** thought he had a beautiful face, entrancing eyes, and good fashion sense. I was shocked by A***’s poor taste, by the appreciation of such an individual: an Adonis from a centerfold with a stupidly handsome face.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne F. Garréta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is the first member of the Oulipo to be born after the founding of the collective. A normalien (graduate of France’s prestigious École normale supérieure) and lecturer at the University of Rennes II since 1995, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne F. Garréta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e was co-opted into the Oulipo in April 2000. She also teaches at Duke University as a Research Professor of Literature and Romance Studies. Her first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, hailed by critics, tells a love story between two people without giving any indication of grammatical gender for the narrator or the narrator’s love interest, A***. She won France’s prestigious Prix Médicis in 2002, awarded each year to an author whose “fame does not yet match their talent” (she is the second Oulipian to win the award–Georges Perec won in 1978), for her book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNot One Day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmma Ramadan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a literary translator of poetry and prose from France, the Middle East, and North Africa. She is the recipient of a Fulbright, an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN\/Heim grant, and the 2018 Albertine Prize. Her translations for Deep Vellum include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne Garréta’s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNot One Day\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Fouad Laroui's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrice Matthieussent's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRevenge of the Translator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. She is based in Providence, RI, where she co-owns Riffraff bookstore and bar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35509165883555,"sku":"9781941920091","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35509165916323,"sku":"9781941920084","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/004-Sphinx.jpg?v=1597073210"},{"product_id":"baho-a-novel","title":"Baho!","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Roland Rugero\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the French by Christopher Schaefer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eYoung Burundian novelist Roland Rugero's second novel \u003cem\u003eBaho!\u003c\/em\u003e, the first Burundian novel to ever be translated into English, explores the concepts of miscommunication and justice against the backdrop of war-torn Burundi's beautiful green hillsides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eApril 12, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419620\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Nyamuragi, an adolescent mute, attempts to ask a young woman in rural Burundi for directions to an appropriate place to relieve himself, his gestures are mistaken as premeditation for rape. To the young woman’s community, his fleeing confirms his guilt, setting off a chain reaction of pursuit, mob justice, and Nyamuragi’s attempts at explanation. Young Burundian novelist Roland Rugero’s second novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaho!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the first Burundian novel to ever be translated into English, explores the concepts of miscommunication and justice against the backdrop of war-torn Burundi’s beautiful green hillsides.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBorn in 1986 in Burundi, \u003cstrong\u003eRoland Rugero\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in a family where reading was a favorite pastime. He has worked as a journalist in Burundi since 2008. His novels include \u003cem\u003eLes Oniriques\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBaho!\u003c\/em\u003e, the first Burundian novel to be translated into English. Rugero has held residencies at La Rochelle and at Iowa's prestigious International Writing Program. In addition to his work as a writer, in 2011 he wrote and directed \u003cem\u003eLes pieds et les mains\u003c\/em\u003e, the second-ever feature-length film from Burundi. Rugero is active in promoting Burundi's literary culture, co-founding the Samandari Workshop and helping found the Michel Kayoza and Andika Prizes. He lives in Bujumbura, Burundi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Schaefer\u003c\/strong\u003e is a translator from the Spanish and French living in Paris. He has won the Ezra Pound Award for Best Translation from the University of Pennsylvania for his translations of the Cuban poet Javier Marimón. 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Tedi López Mills renders a river as a cool but contaminated space, propelling its detritus through a hybrid rural\/urban zone that is inhabited by allegory and rife with collision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/strong\u003e: May 10, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419781\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexpose a mind moving fast as water. Tedi López Mills renders a river as a cool but contaminated space, propelling its detritus through a hybrid rural\/urban zone that is inhabited by allegory and rife with collision. As the poems swim upstream, they accrue the impurities and complicities of memory, embodied in the central figure of the brother who is also the other. Wendy Burk reproduces the baroque, occasionally frenetic rhythms of the abecedarian original with lucidity, in these poems that underscore that Mexico is defined by physical and philosophical contrast.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-tabs wc-tabs-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-Tabs-panel woocommerce-Tabs-panel--reviews panel entry-content wc-tab\" id=\"tab-reviews\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-title-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tedi López Mills is the most interesting Mexican poet working today.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Mario Bellatin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tedi López Mills ingeniously overlays ordinary subject-verb-object sentences with familiar narrative structural elements—“And so,” “The first time,” “Little by little…” to limn a contemporary suburban domestic relationship. But the familiar patterns of romantic gifts, songs, winks, shared dinners, and lists of things to do are horribly irrupted by paranoia, sadomasochistic games, the voices of a psyche named Anonymous, and formulas for controlling the body and its words and deeds. Any erotic dimension is upended; cleavage is perceived as a wound. As the constraints of grammatical regularity and understatement are repeatedly broken and re-established, the poem grows more terrifying…Tedi López Mills expands family drama into critical conceptual questions as she drives home what Rimbaud meant when he wrote ‘Domesticity leads too far.'” \u003cstrong\u003e—Forrest Gander\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eDeath on Rua Augusta\u003c\/em\u003e Tedi López Mills eviscerates and devours a decaying emotional interior. This meticulously crafted diary, beautifully rendered into English by David Shook, of the unassuming and deeply possessed Gordon who has been shattered by obsessive love, is filled with sensual music and erotic perversion. Black and white magic has been exquisitely draped over his plastic California Eden. This is a gorgeous and fiendish gem of a book.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Donald Breckenridge\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTedi López Mills\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of Mexico's foremost poets writing today. Born in Mexico City in 1959, she studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and literature at the Sorbonne. She is the author of ten books of poetry and two essay collections, several of which have received national literary prizes, including the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, \"Mexico's Pulitzer Prize,\" for her verse novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuerte en la rúa Augusta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2009). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLópez Mills\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e sets the pace for her contemporaries with work that is linguistically inventive and philosophically rigorous. She invokes the classics, the troubadours, and the pastoral tradition with an underlying skepticism about language, landscape, and causality that keeps her work current, engaging the eye while troubling the \"I.\" She lives in Mexico City, Mexico.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Burk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e was the recipient of a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship to translate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. She is the author of two chapbooks, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Deer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Place Names The Place Named\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and the translator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eTedi López Mills’s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhile Light Is Built\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTin House, Colorado Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and other journals. 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His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery—protecting dams, for example, from looters. His wife Fariba can no longer stand it, and has left him to rejoin her family in Isfahan. She is anxious for him to choose a life with her, or to let her go and persist with things as they are. But Kamran’s issues run deeper than anybody imagines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 7, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419828\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEngineer Kamran Khosravi wants to die in a car accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr he at least wants it to look that way. His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery — protecting dams, for example, from looters. His wife Fariba can no longer stand it, and has left him to rejoin her family in Isfahan. She is anxious for him to choose a life with her, or to let her go and persist with things as they are. But Kamran’s issues run deeper than anybody imagines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewon the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award for the best novel of the year and was named one of the ten best novels of the decade by the Press Critics Award in Iran. However, in 2007 Yaghoub Yadali was sentenced to one year in prison for having depicted an adulterous affair in the novel.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand his short story collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSketches in the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehave been banned from publication and reprint in Iran. This book is the first for Phoneme Media’s City of Asylum Imprint, which showcases books by current and former writers‐in‐residence at the Pittsburgh‐based nonprofit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYaghoub Yadali\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a fiction writer from Iran, has directed for television and worked for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoshd Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as the editor of the film section. In addition to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2004) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSketches in the Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1997), he is the author of the short story collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eProbability of Merriment and Mooning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2001). His short stories, articles, and essays are published in Iran, Turkey, and the US. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa, Harvard University, and City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, PA.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eSara Khalili\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. 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She lives in New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2004 Golshiri Foundation Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed \"One of the Top Ten Best Novels of the Decade\" by the Press Critics Award in Iran\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As Kamran descends further into a black hole, his nihilistic tendencies come to the fore, at times I was reminded of Dostoyevsky…A readable, enjoyable and enlightening debut in the City of Asylum series and a very worthwhile project to support, one I hope continues for many years to come.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tony Messenger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s a fascinating, and surprisingly suspenseful read about the struggle to find meaning in a life that seems largely out of your control.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Laura Farmer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe picked up the telephone to call Fariba, who was sulking and had gone to her father’s house in Isfahan. He hesitated. He could not bring himself to dial the number. What did he have to say to her? She had already decided not to go back to that secluded hinterland where, according to her, she had wasted three years of her youth, lonely and isolated. She would not return, even at the price of a divorce and losing the man she still loved. He had only two options: either give in to Fariba’s wishes and request a transfer to Isfahan, where he would have to live under her parents’ noses, or leave her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut was his problem the question of where they should live? Or whether they should separate or not? For a long time now, he had stopped caring about what would happen. Whether Fariba would stay or go, whether they would live in a small town or someplace else. He knew that, with or without her, whether they lived in a remote town or in Isfahan or Paris or New York—which Fariba always talked about with envy—none of it would make any difference. What the hell was wrong with him? What was he after? All he knew was that he had to carry out the cold-blooded decision he had made, even at the cost of a human life. He frightened himself. How had he come to this?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was not in the mood for breakfast. He took a cigarette from the pack that was on the coffee table, lit it, and sank back in the sofa. All he wanted was to just lie there, put his feet up on the table, balance the ashtray on his stomach, puff on his cigarette, and not think about the decision he had made. It was as if there were another Kamran inside him, one who did not want to be so heartless. If only he could just stay there forever, sprawled out and doing nothing. He heard his cell phone ring. He would not have answered it had the number on the screen not been that of the real estate agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Good morning, sir. I’m calling because I have found a buyer. You said you’re in a hurry, and I wanted to let you know as soon as possible so that we can arrange to show him the house.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Is it for cash?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Of course, sir, all cash. And it’s up to you how much you’re willing to lower the price. As I explained yesterday, cash customers are hard to come by, and I can’t coax and sweet-talk him until he sees the place. Of course, you understand, sir.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“All right, I should be home this evening around six or seven. If I’m not here, call me and I’ll hurry back. The sooner we wrap this up, the better.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Most certainly, sir. I’m at your service. And don’t worry. Even if this one doesn’t work out, I will do whatever it takes to turn the house into cash in a matter of days.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe hung up and took a deep breath. If Fariba were there, she would say, Don’t they let up even on holidays?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike that Friday when she had come and stood behind him. Which Friday was it? How long ago? Why could he not gauge time? All he could remember was that he did not close the book he was reading; he sat there, motionless. Then he clasped his hands and rested them on the table. He inhaled the pleasant scent of her Nivea deodorant deep into his lungs. He let her playfully run her index finger through his hair until she reached his earlobe. Then with the back of her hand she stroked his bare shoulders until he had goose bumps, and he waited for her to move closer to his left side so that he could deliberately turn and allow his flushed cheek to brush against her nipple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Stop it, girl, stop it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eActing childish was for such times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I like it. Leave me alone, it’s all mine.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFariba’s breezy laughter and that quiet spring morning moved his hand and laid it over hers. He clasped her hand with the intention of lifting it off his shoulder, but the pressure of her body and the scent of Nivea from her underarms mingled with the smell of the onion he had eaten at dinner. He stopped resisting and let her play with the sparse hair on his chest, stroke the skin under his earlobe with her lips and the tip of her nose, and purr, “Do you like it?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut that time, she neither ran her finger playfully through his hair, nor did she twiddle with the hair on his chest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe said, “Kamran.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhenever she called him Kamran instead of Kami, he knew there was trouble ahead. 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Following a journey fraught with dangers and betrayals, Gawa is stranded in the Moroccan city of Tangiers, just in sight of his final goal, where he begins to tell his story, one now familiar to hundreds of thousands. Ivorian illustrator Faustin Titi and Cameroonian journalist Eyoum Ngangué tell this contemporary story from an African perspective, offering an intimate account of one of the great sociopolitical tragedies of our time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEyoum Ngangué\u003c\/b\u003e is a Cameroonian journalist and anthropologist who now lives in exile in Paris. One of the country’s leading investigative journalists during the 1990s, Ngangué was jailed for exposing political corruption and was subsequently granted exile in France in 1998. He is one of the co-founders of the Journalistes Africaines en Exile association. He currently works as the culture editor for the French magazine \u003ci\u003ePélerin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFaustin Titi\u003c\/b\u003e is an Ivorian artist who graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts of Abengorou. He has contributed to several Ivorian magazines and newspapers. He was awarded the Africa e Mediterraneo Prize for his graphic project, \"The Cop of Gnasville\", which dealt with the theme of corruption. He lives in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndré Naffis-Sahely\u003c\/b\u003e‘s first collection of poetry is \u003ci\u003eThe Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life \u003c\/i\u003e(Penguin, 2017). His translations from the French and Italian include works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Alessandro Spina, Rashid Boudjedraand, and Tahar Ben Jelloun. His book \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Barbed Wire: Selected Poems of Abdellatif Laâbi \u003c\/i\u003e(Carcanet Press, 2016) received a \"Writers in Translation\" award from English PEN.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is an exemplary illustration of the complex reasons why young Africans leave their countries, the strong motivation they need to survive the threat of violence encountered on the path to the imaginary Eldorado, and the deep wounds that journey can cause, when failure is not the only result.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Alpha Blondy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“For the first time the [Venice] Biennale also included comics. The North African artists Eyoum Nganguè and Faustin Titi created original drawings for a comic book about displacement, depicting a young African boy’s failed crossing from Tangiers to Europe in search of a brighter future.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Titi and Nganguè address with wit confrontational and provocative aspects of everyday life in Africa, often softening through the watery evanescence of ink wash the potential blow of their imagery in otherwise highly detailed drawings. \u003ci\u003eAn Eternity to Tangiers\u003c\/i\u003e positions itself within the tradition of the \u003ci\u003eband dessinée\u003c\/i\u003e subverting it from within. It gives voice and dignity to an overlooked narrative, the tragic experience of displacement lived by African people who flee their home countries to escape economic, political, or social ordeals. Fanciful and realist at once, it tells the story of a young African boy, Gawa, who leaves home, the imaginary Gnasville, seeking a better future, a journey of hope and disillusionment marked by the failed crossing from Tangiers to Europe. Speaking of Africa from the African point of view, this work counterpoints the exoticized images and the stereotyping gaze of much of the \u003ci\u003eband dessinée\u003c\/i\u003e exemplified by Hergé’s \u003ci\u003eTintin in the Congo\u003c\/i\u003e.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\"Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense,\" \u003ci\u003eCatalogue La Biennale di Venezia 52. 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Like the Duchamp sculpture from which it takes its name, Mario Bellatin’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Large Glass\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e deconstructs the very form it embraces, revealing the artifice of the autobiographical genre, while cleverly celebrating the importance of the stories we tell about ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" color=\"#000000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMario Bellatin (born in Mexico, 1960) has already gained a status as one of the greatest living Mexican writers. Bellatin, who has been called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“controversial,” “a cult writer,” and an “eccentric public figure,”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" color=\"#000000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the author of dozens of intricate, compelling, and absolutely unique novels that have won numerous international literary awards, including the José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, Premio Nacional de Literatura Mazatlán, Barbara Gittings Literature Award, Antonin Artaud Award, and the José María Arguedas Prize. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBellatin's works have been translated into 21 languages. Previous books published in English include\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003eBeauty Salon, The Large Glass, Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction, The Transparent Bird's Gaze, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Jacob the Mutant\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Mexico City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDavid Shook's many translations include work by Mario Bellatin, Tedi López Mills, and Víctor Terán. 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In this whirlwind debut collection, first published in Portuguese in 2007, Gertrude Stein passes gas in her bathtub, a sushi chef cries tears of Suntory Whisky, and Ezra Pound is kept “insane in a cage in pisa.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419545\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRilke Shake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s title, a pun on milkshake, means in Portuguese just what it does in English. With frenetic humor and linguistic innovation, Angélica Freitas constructs a temple of delight to celebrate her own literary canon. In this whirlwind debut collection, first published in Portuguese in 2007, Gertrude Stein passes gas in her bathtub, a sushi chef cries tears of Suntory Whisky, and Ezra Pound is kept “insane in a cage in pisa.” Hilary Kaplan’s translation is as contemporary and lyrical as the Portuguese-language original, a considerable feat considering the collection’s breakneck pace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2016 National Translation Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2016 PEN Poetry Translation Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this brilliant translation by Hilary Kaplan, Angélica Freitas shakes and blends the influences of her Brazilian forbears with international figures like Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and Mallarmé. Her poetry possesses an essential lightness that Italo Calvino believed to be the basis of good writing, along with quickness, exactitude, and visibility. This lightness brings momentum, weight, and wit. In Freitas’ “Cassino Beach,” for instance: “you prefer the raw \/ to the refined: \/ mouth oyster tongue \/ lake moon place \/ landscape with pine trees \/ in the background. you always \/ preferred the raw \/ to the reel, insomnia to \/ the barber of Seville…” Kaplan presents the dance and humor of Freitas’ Portuguese with a similar exactitude. No fabled saudade here, but the sound of an ocarina underwater in the Orinoco.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Paul Hoover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What a lovely collection of poems. They mix topics including arcade basketball, mustaches and Gertrude Stein into unexpected, funny and poignant delights.” \u003cstrong\u003e—A.J. Jacobs, New York Times-bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eDrop Dead Healthy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Wry, painfully funny and moving. Kaplan’s translation captures the formal invention and deadpan beauty of the original perfectly.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Sasha Dugdale, editor of \u003cem\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a clever and profound collection, written with a light hand. It is translated as cleverly and as lightly.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Natasha Dennerstein, \u003cem\u003eFourteen Hills\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eRilke Shake\u003c\/em\u003e, the Brazilian poet, Angélica Freitas, whips up a powerful tonic for even the most stubborn case of anxiety of influence: one cup Rilke, a pinch Gertrude Stein (farting in the tub), two tablespoons Poundian cadences, a dash of Marianne Moore, and toasted Blake, with five hundred hollygolightlies thrown in for good measure, the whole lot shaken not stirred.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tess Lewis, Three Percent at University of Rochester\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngélica Freitas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(b. 1973) is the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRilke shake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Cosac Naify, 2007) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eUm útero é do tamanho de um punho\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Cosac Naify, 2012). Her graphic novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuadalupe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2012), published by Companhia das Letras, was illustrated by Odyr Bernardi. Freitas’s poems have been translated and published in German, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, and English. She was awarded a Programa Petrobras Cultural writing fellowship in 2009. Freitas co-edits the poetry journal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eModo de Usar \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand lives in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e‘s translations of Brazilian poetry and fiction have been featured in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePEN America\u003c\/i\u003e, and on BBC Radio 4. Her writing on Brazilian poetry and poetics appears in eLyra, Jacket2, Rascunho, and the collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeslocamentos Críticos\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. She received a 2011 PEN Translation Fund grant for her translation of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRilke Shake\u003c\/i\u003e. 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In an attempt to understand what a “true Texan should know,” the author reflects on his outsider experiences in this most unique of places, learning to two-step, musing on cowboy hats and cowboy churches, blending his observations with a meditative rumination on the history of Texas and the events that shaped the state, from the first settlers to Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. All the while, the author is asking what a novel is and must be, while accompanied by a fictional cast of seven samurai who the author invents and carries with him, silent companions in a pantomime of existential theater. Jung blends fact with imagination, humor with reflection, and meaning with meaninglessness, as his meanderings become an absorbing, engaging, quintessential novel of ideas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJung Young Moon\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Hamyang, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, in 1965. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in psychology. He made his literary début in 1996 with the novel \u003cem\u003eA Man Who Barely Exists\u003c\/em\u003e. Jung is also an accomplished translator who has translated more than forty books from English into Korean, including works by John Fowles, Raymond Carver, and Germaine Greer. 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Stories that go the other way around are as rare as hens’ teeth…\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeven Samurai Swept Away in a River \u003c\/em\u003eopens a window into a non-traditional narrative prose style.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eAsian Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is a slim and beautiful volume. That’s important for this particular book because this is… a piece of art. 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With patience, good humor, and fortitude, Noll provides a field manual for taking fiction apart and putting it back together again, gaining technical know-how and inspiration along the way. An indispensable book that belongs on every serious writer’s desk.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Amanda Eyre Ward, author of\u003cem\u003e The Nearness of You\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These exercises are a true inspiration for both novice and experienced writers.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Writer’s Field Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an invaluable book that will energize any writer’s imagination and help overcome any writer’s block.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Heidi W. 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Her writing is beautiful and poetic, funny, strange, heartbreaking and wise.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—NPR \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Bullwinkel…shows impressive range and deep emotional intelligence…her stories approach brilliance.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"In Belly Up, a profound talent has manifested, one that is experimental in the best sense.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Bullwinkel’s collection hums with sharp sentences and observations, introducing a startling, off-kilter voice in fiction.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Hilariously deadpan.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Michael Berry, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“This short story collection is like a house with many stupendous rooms built from spare sentences and subtle obsessions that spiral into the best kinds of existential questions.”\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e —Ingrid Rojas Contreras, KQED\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“[This] book is full of squirmy pleasures.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Kristen Roupenian, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“[\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBelly Up\u003c\/em\u003e] shows us that those ‘unknown forces’ do not have to remake the entire world in order to be weird. Our littles lives are strange enough.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Josephine Livingston,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“These surreal stories, suffused with humor and a casual tenderness, feature the kind of writing that gets stuck inside your head, right behind your eyes, so that, after you read it, everything about the way you view the world seems colored and warped by this new lens.”\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e—Kristin Iversen,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNylon Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“This collection, which absolutely heralds an exciting new talent, takes place at a four-way crossroads between the mind and the body, the reality we can know and the reality adjacent to our own, which we can only glimpse through fiction.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Lauren Kane,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Bullwinkel’s stories are fantastic and fabulist feats that (often) address our messy, cumbersome bodies in thrilling and imaginative ways. For example: in lieu of a bra, a man is hired to support a daughter’s breasts; a woman whose plastic surgeon, when fixing her eyes, leaves her with a turkey neck (not literally but); twin brothers Gleb and Oleg, surgeon and sculptor, live in a prison infirmary and perform a thumb transplant. 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They are mysterious, strange, and fearlessly funny in their expression of human isolation, and they contain the existential surprises of great literature.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBelly Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a powerful debut by an unusually gifted writer.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Lorrie Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“At the intersection of the surreal and the real, Rita Bullwinkel has carved out a unique space in which the mundane and the strange cohabitate and sometimes frolic. The sharp, precise writing and careful observations of the human condition in her excellent first collection\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBelly Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esignal the debut of a major new talent.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jeff VanderMeer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Bullwinkel’s delightful, passionate stories of disturbance and worried words have the best kind of frenetic energy.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Deb Olin Unferth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The intelligence and precision of Bullwinkel’s prose allows her to mine the deeply strange and deeply intimate with abandon and exactitude.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jenessa Abrams, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Belly Up is a haunting carnival, a celebration in defiance of extinction, and an embrace of the weirdness of life, and what might come after.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Tobias Carroll, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTor\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The expertly crafted stories in Belly Up veer between surrealism and realism, present day and the past, short and long, but they always leave the reader with a new way to look at the world.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Lincoln Michel, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBOMB\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Bullwinkel’s writing is characterized by an exquisite sensitivity to language, one that allows her to explore the borders between her characters’ inner and outer lives.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Georgia Rowe, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe San Jose Mercury News\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Utterly compelling.\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Evening Standard\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Readers will enjoy contemplating Bullwinkel’s launching points, but the strength of her writing and the nuanced views will stay with them long after.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Emily Dziuban, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A Strange Object","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35464841396387,"sku":"9780998518435","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35464841429155,"sku":"9780998518442","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/Belly_Up.jpg?v=1596660623"},{"product_id":"man-amp-wife","title":"Man and Wife","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Katie Chase\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003eFrom \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwilight Zone\u003c\/em\u003e suburbia to cities on fire to post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, these award-winning stories range over unexpected landscapes—and land squarely in the wildness of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780989275989\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646050000\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis bracing, intelligent debut tackles the strangeness of growing up, the joys and difficulties of breaking away from family, and our sometime absurd or downright dangerous rites of passage. The girls and women in these stories come up against the rules and roles that give shape to their worlds. As marriages are arranged over tea, blood feuds simmer beneath football games , and the rules of  a city burn, they struggle between holding onto their families and seeking out new ways to live and love. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese stories ask, as our hands slip from the long line of tradition and we become refugees from home, what, if anything, is lost. And how is that what we thought we’d let go keeps finding its way back?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiographical Note \u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKatie Chase's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e short fiction has appeared in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMissouri Review, Five Chapters, The Literary Review, Narrative, Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, Mississippi Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePushcart Prize\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eanthologies. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she is the recipient of a Teaching-Writing Fellowship, a Provost's Postgraduate Writing Fellowship, and a Michener- Copernicus Award. She has also been a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San José State University. 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These stories speak frankly about desire and how we are bound—literally and figuratively—to each other. Inviting the reader to participate in narrative games and investigations, Misadventure buzzes with brainy energy. Full of disorientation, urgency, gallows humor, and, ultimately, hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNicholas Grider\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a writer and artist living in Milwaukee. He received an interschool MFA from California Institute of the Arts. 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Yideum captures with raw honesty the sense of dread felt by many Korean women during this time as Jeong struggles in a swirl of misguided desires and hopelessness against a society distorted by competing ideologies, sexual violence, and cultural conservatism. 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In this novel, the second in a trilogy, Rahmani’s narrator contemplates the loss of her native language and her imprisonment and exile for being Muslim, woven together in an exploration of the political and personal relationship of language within the fraught history of Islam. Drawing inspiration from the oral histories of her native Berber language, the Koran, and French children’s tales, Rahmani combines fiction and lyric essay in to tell an important story, both powerful and visionary, of identity, persecution, and violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Algerian-born academic and author \u003cstrong\u003eZahia Rahmani\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of France’s leading art historians and writers of fiction, memoirs, and cultural criticism. 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She is the founder and director of INHA’s ambitious Interactive Bibliographic Database on the globalization of art, its history and theoretical impact. Rahmani is a member of the Global Visual Cultures Academic Committee and she also created the graduate research program at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, which she directed from 1999-2002. Her multi-year international research project at the INHA in Paris and Marseille culminated in \u003cem\u003eMade in Algeria: Genealogy of a Territory\u003c\/em\u003e, a book and current exhibition of colonial cartography, high and popular visual culture, and contemporary art at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM), located in Marseille.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMatt Reeck\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning poet and translator from the French, Urdu, Hindi, and Korean. 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