{"title":"Deep Vellum Holiday 2023 Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis holiday season, we at Deep Vellum are recommending books for all the readers in your life (yourself included, of course). Shop our recs and get \u003cstrong\u003e30% off when you buy 3 books\u003c\/strong\u003e from the collection, or \u003cstrong\u003e40% when you buy 4 or more\u003c\/strong\u003e!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscounts will be added automatically at checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mr-fix-it","title":"Mr. Fix It","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Richard Ali A Mutu\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Lingala by Bienvenu Sene Mongaba\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThe first novel to be translated into English from Lingala, Mr. Fix It follows an educated but unemployed young man who must navigate the ever widening distance between tradition and modernity in the chaotic megacity of Kinshasa as he struggles with responsibility and flirts with temptation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 1, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781944700072\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEbamba’s name means “mender” in Lingala, but everything in the Congolese twentysomething’s life seems to be falling apart. In the chaotic megacity of Kinshasa, the educated but unemployed young man must navigate the ever widening distance between tradition and modernity — from the payment of his fiancee’s exorbitant dowry to the unexpected sexual confession of his best friend — as he struggles with responsibility and flirts with temptation. The first novel to be translated into English from Lingala, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMr. Fix It\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e introduces major new talent Richard Ali A Mutu, who leads a new generation of writers whose work portrays the everyday realities of Congolese life with the bold, intense style associated with the country’s music and fashion.\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 class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Ali A Mutu\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1988. He won the Mark Twain Award in 2009 and published his first novel, \u003cem\u003eTabu’s Nightmares\u003c\/em\u003e, written in French, in 2011. His novel \u003cem\u003eMr. Fix It: Troublesome Kinshasa\u003c\/em\u003e was published in Lingala in 2014 and has since been translated into French as well. Ali was selected as one of the only writers working in indigenous languages for the Africa 39 anthology, which showcased the continent’s most talented writers under forty, including Chimamanda Adichie and Dinaw Mengetsu. He works as a lawyer and writer and hosts a weekly television program about Congolese literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBienvenu Sene Mongaba\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Congolese writer, translator, and publisher. He directs Éditions Mabiki, which champions Congolese languages. He has written three books of fiction in Lingala and several in French. He splits his time between Kinshasa and Belgium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn avid reader and passionate linguist with a keen academic interest in African literature, \u003cstrong\u003eSara Sene\u003c\/strong\u003e is a translator working with Italian, English, French, Spanish, and Lingala.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43823694053625,"sku":"9781944700072","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/Mr.Fix-It.jpg?v=1596837852"},{"product_id":"black-forest","title":"Black Forest","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Valérie Mréjen\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the French by Katie Shireen Assef\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eA book of mourning told through a coolly evocative series of life (and death) vignettes, from a lauded French writer, now in English for the first time; \u003cem\u003eSix Feet Under\u003c\/em\u003e meets George Perec.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781944700904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781646050215\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA man decides he is old enough. 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":"seven-samurai-swept-away-in-a-river","title":"Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jung Young Moon \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Yewon Jung\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eA literary meandering into the mythology of place and what a novel can be, inspired by the author’s time spent at an artist residency in small-town Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eNovember 5, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781941920855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781941920862\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his inimitable, recursive, meditative style that reads like a comedic zen koan but contains universes, \u003cem\u003eSeven Samurai Swept Away in a River\u003c\/em\u003e recounts Korean cult writer's Jung Young Moon’s time spent at an artist’s and writers residency in small-town Texas. 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. In 1999 he won the 12th Dongseo Literary Award with his collection of short stories, \u003cem\u003eA Chain of Dark Tales\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2005 Jung was invited to participate in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and in 2010 the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Korean Study invited him to participate in a three-month-long residency program. In 2012, he won the Han Moo-suk Literary Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, and the Daesan Literary Award for his novel \u003cem\u003eA Contrived World\u003c\/em\u003e. Deep Vellum published his novel, \u003cem\u003eVaseline Buddha\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2016.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJung Yewon\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Seoul, and moved to the US at the age of 12. She received a BA in English from Brigham Young University and an MA from the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.\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\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeatured as a “Book of Note” by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAthenaeum Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eat The University of Texas at Dallas! (June 2020)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Who better than a Texas-based publisher of fiction in translation to champion an unusual work by a Korean writer, set in the Lone Star state?  No-one, that’s who.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tony Malone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Dispassionate, subversive, ambiguous, utterly cuckoo at times, Jung Young Moon has written a short masterwork of contemporary digression, a far distant cousin to\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1759); but also a novel that acts as an antidote to our age of distraction because it takes real presence to follow the narrator’s mind, a mind that is looking to challenge the notions of fiction — to create fiction that one might hesitate to call fiction.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eSplice Magazine \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Impressive fluidity… Like a lucid dream.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An oddly entertaining stream of consciousness that flows out over the thirsty Lone Star State.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There are many novels by Western authors sojourning in Asia. 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. This is something that you want to hold dear and treasure.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eRead the World\u003c\/em\u003e, Derek Maine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA man from Korea visits Texas and proceeds to think about everything and nothing all at once. The most fun writer working today.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Ivy Bookshop\u003c\/i\u003e, Teddy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eVaseline Buddha\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Reading\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVaseline Buddha\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efeels like watching a magician who explains his trick as he performs it and yet still mesmerizes you with his sleight of hand. 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The award-winning narratives in this mesmerizing debut trace the lives of ex-pats, artists, and outsiders as they seek to find their place in the world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHana Sasaki\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e beguiles and surprises: stories include an oracular toaster, a woman who grows a tail, and a most unusual kind of sex reassignment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\"\u003eKelly Luce\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e grew up in Brookfield, Illinois. After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in cognitive science, she moved to Japan, where she lived and worked for three years. 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This book in an incantation, and I adore it.”\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Claire Vaye Watkins, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBattleborn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“These stories unsettle as much as they entertain.”\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jim Shepard, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou Think That’s Bad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“In\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThree Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail\u003c\/em\u003e, Kelly Luce manages the impossible: each story delicate and enormous, intricate, glitteringly beautiful, never less than strange, never less than profound, ten spiderwebs astonishingly spun. 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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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Also, there are anarchists and revolution and when are those things not fun to read about? All historical names and contexts are explained in non-pedantic ways that give the average reader all the necessary information re: Spain pre-World War II.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Chad Post, \u003cem\u003eThree Percent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Martín Sánchez gives a good picture of the Spanish-émigré scene in Paris and the revolutionary ambitions -- including the role of Blasco Ibáñez -- as well as the anarchist scene of the early twentieth century more generally… an impressive picture of the Spain (and the exiled-Spaniards) situation of those years.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Complete Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating immersion into historical documentation and imagined history.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Tobias Carroll, \u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35509193277603,"sku":"9781941920718","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35509193310371,"sku":"9781941920725","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/037-The_Anarchist_Who_Shared_My_Name.jpg?v=1597086839"},{"product_id":"blood-of-the-dawn","title":"Blood of the Dawn","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClaudia Salazar Jiménez\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAn award-winning debut novel of politics, desire and pain by Peruvian author Claudia Salazar Jiménez. The lives of three women intertwine and are ripped apart during what's known as \"the time of fear\" in Peruvian history, when the Shining Path rebel insurgency was at its peak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eDecember 6, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781941920428\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781941920435\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\u003cem\u003eBlood of the Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what's known as \"the time of fear\" in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the conflict through the voice of women, activating memory through a mixture of politics, desire, and pain in a lucid and brutal prose.\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\u003eClaudia Salazar Jiménez\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in Lima, Peru, in 1976, one of the most recognized Peruvian writers of her generation, is also a literary critic, professor, cultural manager, and the founder of the literary journal \u003cem\u003eFuegos de Arena\u003c\/em\u003e. She studied literature at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and holds a PhD from NYU. She edited the anthologies \u003cem\u003eEscribir en Nueva York\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) about Hispanic American narrators and \u003cem\u003eVoces para Lilith\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) on contemporary South American women writers and is also the founder and director of PERUFEST, the first Peruvian cinema festival in New York. Her debut novel \u003cem\u003eBlood of the Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the Las Americas Narrative Prize in 2014. She also received the TUMI-USA Award in 2015. Her most recent publication is the collection of short stories \u003cem\u003eCoordenadas Temporales\u003c\/em\u003e (2016). 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That’s what Salazar Jiménez does in this beautiful, horrifying work of art.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Michael Schaub, \u003cem\u003eNPR Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Jiménez’s prose is clear-cut and doesn’t sugarcoat the realities of the insurgence and the effects it had on the people of Peru. When this debut novel was first published in Spanish, Jiménez received the 2014 Americas Narrative Prize. Read it, and you’ll see why.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Cassidy Foust, \u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Fiery and political debut.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBlood of the Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e is a delirious, harrowing onslaught of mixed allegiances and betrayals, punctuated with machete chops and the machine gun’s staccato call.”  \u003cstrong\u003e—Kenneth Rupp, \u003ci\u003eThe Habitat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Jiménez’s frequent shifts in scene, tense, and perspective reflect the relentless insecurity wrought by Shining Path’s guerrilla tactics and terrorist acts… English-speaking readers will appreciate the ways in which Bryer’s translation preserves each woman’s unique cadence, reminding us that tragedy is experienced on a individual level, even as it ravages an entire country.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Arkansas International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A brief novel, but an intense one, whose every word flexes with a taut power.” \u003cstrong\u003e— \u003cem\u003eJosh is Writing\u003c\/em\u003e blog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A hair-raising look at violence, women and Perú. Highly recommended. And visceral.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Santiago Roncagliolo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Among the best books of the year . . . Her use of short paragraphs, quotes, photography, testimony and the different voices, turn this death tale into a recovery of the women’s experience. Women are the ones who star in this sum of voices like a tragic chorus.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Julio Ortega, \u003ci\u003eEl Boomeran\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s an original novel. Beyond the polemic topic, \u003ci\u003eBlood of the Dawn \u003c\/i\u003eonly talks about literature. . . . Lyrical and cinematographic. If there are certain things that can’t be (shouldn’t be) told with words, we cannot silence them either.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Sophie Canal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This may one be the first novels to talk about this issue from the women’s point of view, and in a very effective way. . . . \u003ci\u003eBlood of the Dawn \u003c\/i\u003eis an original addition to the abundant literature on this difficult and polemic episode of our recent history.”\u003cstrong\u003e —Javier Agreda, \u003ci\u003eLa República\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This incendiary novel manages to pair an honest look at a social and national trauma with an intimate portrayal of the personal tragedies within.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLibrairie Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Composed of very brief and stylistically varied sections—confession, interrogation, fever dream, prose poem—\u003cem\u003eBlood of the Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erapidly switches between narratives, creating a sort of social collage.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Ratik Asokan, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 9\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35464917942435,"sku":"9781941920428","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35464917975203,"sku":"9781941920435","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/022-Blood_of_the_Dawn.jpg?v=1596660794"},{"product_id":"the-outlaw","title":"The Outlaw","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/deepvellum.org\/authors\/jon-gnarr\/\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJón Gnarr\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe dark final volume of the former Rekyjavík mayor's childhood memoir-trilogy delves into the brutal, relentless despair of his late teens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eMarch 14, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781941920527\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781941920534\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\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Outlaw\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the third and final volume in his acclaimed trilogy, former Reykjavík mayor and comedian Jón Gnarr returns to face the dark teenage years with his signature humor and candor. Raging with music, poetry, life, loneliness, and questions of right and wrong, Jón, a fourteen-year-old punk rock misfit, is sent to boarding school in the Westfjords region of Iceland. There he decides Crass is the only worthy punk band, discovers an unrequited interest in girls, and chooses drugs and self-harm to cope with mental anguish and intense thoughts of alienation and despair. 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The writer gives so much of himself that he manages to heal old wounds of adolescence as well as make a mother’s heart weep. I wish everybody in the whole world would read this book.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Audur Jonsdottir, writer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe aircraft lifted itself from the ground at Reykjavík Airport. It was only the second time I’d been on a plane. I’d gone to Norway with my mother and father. I’d never been to Reykjavík Airport—never flown domestically. I had a limited understanding of Iceland in my mind, and was exceedingly oblivious as to its character. I’d taken a road trip around the country with my parents, but everything seemed utterly identical so I couldn’t work out where I was at any given moment. The county felt somehow alien to me. I could conjure up a picture of Iceland but I couldn’t place myself within that picture. I’d gone all the way to Akureyri, but didn’t have a clue where to find it on a map. And now I was headed to Ísafjörður. I knew nothing about the place and was struggling to imagine what it would be like. I guessed the town would be some podunk place like Búðardalur; given the name, it was safe to assume it must always be freezing cold there in “ice fjord.” I bet people had gardens full of dockweed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll kinds of folk were on the plane, adults and children alike. I didn’t know anyone. An older woman was sitting beside me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What’s taking you to Ísafjörður?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m going to Núpur.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The boarding school?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Uuuuh…”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNúpur at Dýrafjörður, to give it its full name? What was it, exactly? I hadn’t seen a picture of the location and had no idea what a boarding school was. I’d never been to such a place. I’d heard stories, though, about kids who’d gone to the boarding school at Laugarvatn, and it sure sounded fun. A mix of being in school and living in a commune. You had a fair amount of freedom, everyone was good friends, and there was plenty of booze. I hoped it’d be like that at Núpur in Dýrafjörður. But Núpur was probably some storage depot for delinquents, some sort of care home that primarily catered to troubled souls. I didn’t quite know if I was a delinquent, but I was close to being one, at least. Delinquents were like me. Although we might not see ourselves as troubled youths, others did. Núpur at Dýrafjörður…the name itself sounded ancient—almost like a foreign language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI found it fascinating to fly over Iceland and see it from the air. The skies were clear that day so I could see right across the country. Snow-packed mountain slopes, fjords, and then some black blots that were definitely wildernesses…or highlands. I’d never been to the highlands but I’d sometimes heard about people in the news who got lost there. The highlands were dangerous places. Especially in winter. One time, I went camping with Mom and Dad and the family of a man who worked with my father in the police. I had no clue where we were and we had to spend the night in tents and the adults drank alcohol. One guy was really funny; he told me a story about the time he and my father headed to a spring up in the highlands to retrieve the body of a man who’d gotten stuck there over winter. The man was lying face down, and when they arrived they saw that ravens had pecked his ass clean off. The guy told the story like it was the funniest thing; he said it a good job the corpse was face down or the ravens would have gotten his face, taken his eyes, nose and lips. I totally agreed: the lesser of two evils, just, would be to have ravens eat my asshole and not my eyes. It seemed a bit nicer to let ravens peck at your ass than your eyes. They guy burst out laughing and called out:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Kristinn, remember how much trouble we had getting that body into the car? He was frozen stiff, solid as a rock.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDad nodded, smiled faintly, and didn’t laugh. He clearly didn’t find it as amusing as his friend did. Perhaps he felt uncomfortable that I was hearing the story. The highlands were no-man’s land, a place no one should go. From the air, they struck me as desolate, black, bereft of humans as far as the eye could see. The friendly lady sitting next to me told me she had not been to Ísafjörður in a long time. She was headed to visit her family. She talked about some places and mentioned some names I didn’t know. The woman tried to explain to me where her family lived and I nodded my head at regular intervals and uttered the occasional “oh, yeah, got it” like I was able to put it all together in my head and follow what she was saying. Önundarfjörður? I had no idea whether it was the name of a fjord or a company. I let the situation keep going this way, nodding as though I knew what the hell she was talking about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJón Gnarr\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1967 in Reykjavík. He formed the Best Party in 2009 and became the mayor of Reykjavík in 2010. His acting work includes the movies \u003cem\u003eThe Icelandic Dream\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Man Like Me\u003c\/em\u003e and the television series \u003cem\u003eThe Night Shif\u003c\/em\u003et, which aired on BBC4. As a child, Gnarr was diagnosed with severe mental retardation due to dyslexia, learning difficulties, and ADHD. He nevertheless overcame his hardships and went on to become one of Iceland’s most well-known actors and comedians, and published the first two volumes in his fictionalized autobiography in 2006, \u003cem\u003eThe Indian\u003c\/em\u003e, and 2009, \u003cem\u003eThe Pirate\u003c\/em\u003e (the third volume, \u003cem\u003eThe Outlaw\u003c\/em\u003e will be published in Iceland in fall 2015–Deep Vellum will publish the trilogy in full in 2015-2016).In late 2009 Gnarr formed the joke Best Party with a number of friends with no background in politics. The Best Party, which was a satirical political party that parodied Icelandic politics and aimed to make the life of the citizens more fun, managed a plurality win in the 2010 municipal elections in Reykjavik, and Gnarr became Major of Reykjavik (there’s a great documentary on Gnarr’s campaign, which introduces you to Gnarr’s unique and inspiring personality, called Gnarr). His term as mayor ended in June 2014 and he plans to use his post-mayor years to continue writing and speaking on issues that are most important to him: freedom of speech, human rights, protecting the environment, and achieving international peace. Now that his term as mayor is complete, he has moved to Texas to focus on writing, speaking on issues he holds most dear (world peace, sexual and gender equality, freedoms for writers and journalists), and performing stand-up comedy again\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35509417017507,"sku":"9781941920527","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35509417083043,"sku":"9781941920534","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/026-The_Outlaw.jpg?v=1597088987"},{"product_id":"voroshilovgrad","title":"Voroshilovgrad","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/deepvellum.org\/authors\/serhiy-zhadan\/\"\u003eSerhiy Zhadan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eTranslated from the Ukrainian by Isaac Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEasy Rider\u003c\/em\u003e meets \u003cem\u003ePedro Páramo\u003c\/em\u003e in this darkly funny, fast-paced road novel that barrels through eastern Ukraine's ravaged industrial landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eMay 24, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781941920305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781941920312\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Trainspotting set against a grim post-Soviet backdrop.\" —\u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA city-dwelling executive heads home to take over his brother's gas station after his mysterious disappearance, but all he finds at home are mysteries and ghosts. The bleak industrial landscape of now-war-torn eastern Ukraine sets the stage for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoroshilovgrad\u003c\/em\u003e, the Soviet era name of the Ukranian city of Luhansk, mixing magical realism and exhilarating road novel in poetic, powerful, and expressive prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSerhiy Zhadan\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of the key voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature: his poetry and novels have enjoyed popularity both at home and abroad. He has twice won BBC Ukraine’s Book of the Year (2006 and 2010) and has twice been nominated as \u003cem\u003eRussian GQ\u003c\/em\u003e’s “Man of the Year” in their writers category. Writing is just one of his many interests, which also include singing in a band, translating poetry and organizing literary festivals. Zhadan was born in Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast. He graduated from Kharkiv University in 1996, then spent three years as a graduate student of philology. He taught Ukrainian and world literature from 2000 to 2004, and thereafter retired from teaching. Zhadan has translated poetry from German, English, Belarusian, and Russian from poets such as Paul Celan and Charles Bukowski. His own works have been translated into German, English, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Russian, Hungarian, Armenian, Swedish and Czech. In 2013, he participated in Euromaidan demonstrations in Kharkiv, and in 2014, he was assaulted outside the administration building in Kharkiv, an incident discussed in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives and works in Kharkiv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReilly Costigan-Humes\u003c\/strong\u003e is a graduate of Haverford College, where he studied Russian literature and culture. He lives and works in Moscow and translates literature from the Ukrainian and Russian.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIsaac Wheeler\u003c\/strong\u003e received an MA in Russian Translation from Columbia University and is also a graduate of Haverford College, where he studied Russian Language and English Literature. Wheeler lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he is a professional business and literary translator.\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 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2014 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the \u003cem\u003eBBC Ukraine\u003c\/em\u003e's Book of the Decade Award in December 2014\u003cbr\u003eOne of\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e World Literature Today\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e's Recommended Summer Reads 2016\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoroshilovgrad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an unsentimental novel about human relationships in conditions of brutality in which there is not a single act of betrayal… In his prose there is no nostalgia, but there is genuine affection, rough and profound. Even in this brutish habitus, there is trust, loyalty, and love.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarci Shore, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoroshilovgrad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is more, however, than an exercise in post-Soviet social realism. There is something deeply mythological about the novel, and, like many myths, it is a story of homecoming. . . . Zhadan’s language is suitably elastic, swinging from the tough, streetwise irony of a Ukrainian Irvine Welsh to flights of ebullient poetry more reminiscent of Bruno Schulz.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUilleam Blacker, \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A homecoming is by turns magical and brutal in Zhadan's impressive picaresque novel. . . . For Zhadan, loyalty and fraternity are the life-giving forces in this exhausted, fertile, near-anarchic corner of the country . . . readers will be touched by his devotion to a land of haunted beauty, 'high sky,' and 'black earth.'\"\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"With \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoroshilovgrad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Zhadan has created an authentic poetics of post–Soviet rural devastation. His ragged, sympathetic characters aren’t the newly rich post–Soviets of Moscow, the urban oligarchs Peter Pomerantsev has described, who “sing hymns to Russian religious conservatism — and keep their money and families in London.” They are individuals struggling to come to terms with their place in history and with the history of their place.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmelia Glaser, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A trippy novel of contemporary Ukraine . . . set far away from the bustle of the metropolis and the Maidan, yet no less representative of the unsettled state of a country unable to transition. A bit meandering—but generally in a good way—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoroshilovgrad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an entertaining sort-of-road-novel with quite a bit of depth to it.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Orthofer, \u003cem\u003eComplete Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Zhadan’s canvas is large and is filled with bold characters... [he] also tosses into the mix fantastic and surreal flights of prose; poetic descriptions of the still-beautiful parts of the Ukraine, with its rich, black, enduring earth.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWillard Manus, \u003cem\u003eLively Arts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Ukraine’s best-known poet and the country’s most famous counter-culture writer.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—S\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eally McGrane, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Blurring the boundaries between time and space as well as place, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoroshilovgrad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e narrates the journey of Herman, an advertising executive, who returns to his remote home after years of city living to find his missing brother.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Zhadan is a writer who is a rock star, like Byron in the early nineteenth century was a rock star.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Vitaly Chernetsky, professor of Slavic Literature at the University of Kansas, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoroshilovgrad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e crosses, with tremendous grace, back and forth between lyrical dreaminess and brutal nightmarishness, and Zhadan works in lots of absurdity… \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eparadoxically both real and bizarre.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Espenschade, \u003cem\u003eLizok's Bookshelf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A fascinating exploration into a post-soviet Ukraine. Not only does it explore the effects of communism to an industrial city, but also the power vacuum left behind when the Soviet Union collapsed.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Kitto, \u003cem\u003eKnowledge Lost\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A dark but funny tale of an urbanite who returns to his hometown to run his brother's gas station. It's a road novel with splashes of magical realism and an embrace of fraternal loyalty. In hindsight, the bleak, disheartening environs and attitudes make it hard not to notice parallels to Trumpian middle America.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJay Trachtenberg, \u003cem\u003eThe Austin Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"An entertaining tale . . . Trouble keeps finding Herman, and it's hard not to root for him.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoman Augustovitz, \u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eVoroshilovgrad\u003c\/em\u003e is a road novel that escapes itself...[it] evokes the notion that the things we may consider nearest and dearest (romantic love, “brotherhood” and even more cynical values like materialism) are, rather than the be-all and end-all, just the tip of the iceberg emerging from the more alien depths of human motivation.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElisabeth Cook, \u003cem\u003eLit All Over\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The book veers from poetic lyricism to brutal realism. And sometimes we get both at the same time, a feat I would have thought impossible, but Zhadan pulls it off.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZoe Brooks, \u003cem\u003eMagic Realism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A strange mixture of magical realism, road novel, and spiritual journey . . . By turns jaunty, hilarious, poignant, and depressing, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoroshilovgrad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells an important story about the people left in the wake of Communism's collapse, and the ways in which they try to build a future.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Cordasco, \u003cem\u003eBookishly Witty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Zhadan’s language is wild and powerful. The rhythm structuring his endless sentences demonstrates his beginnings as a poet.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJutta Lindekugel, \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A generation's manifesto.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiza Novikova, \u003cem\u003eIzvestiya\u003c\/em\u003e (Russia)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Zhadan's prose is so poetic, his free verse so prosaic. It is difficult to assign a genre to his work: memoir, travelogue, timely or untimely meditation — or a mixture of all these, centered on the themes ‘my generation’ and 'our epoch'.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e (Russia)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"One of the most important creative forces in modern Ukrainian alternative culture. He writes desolately, brashly, deliriously, associatively, cleverly and with laugh-out-loud humor and great empathy for his characters...\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKulturSpiegel (Germany)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"There is no summarizing the spicy, hot, sweet, vicious improvisations of Serhiy Zhadan—this is verbal jazz.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKirill Ankudinov, \u003cem\u003eVzglyad.ru\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e (Russia)\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\u003cp\u003eTelephones exist for breaking all kinds of bad news. Voices on the phone sound cold and detached. I guess it’s easier to pass along bad news in an official-sounding voice. I know what I’m talking about. I’ve been fighting telephone receivers my whole life, albeit unsuccessfully. Operators all over the world continue to keep track of people’s conversations, jotting down the most important words and phrases. Meanwhile, psalm books and phone directories lay open on hotel nightstands; that’s all you need to keep the faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI slept in my clothes – jeans and a stretched-out T-shirt. Upon waking, I roamed the room, knocking over empty soda bottles, glasses, cans and ashtrays, plates with sauce slopped all over them, and shoes. Barefoot and bad-tempered, I stepped on apples, pistachios and dates like oily cockroaches. When you’re renting you are surrounded by other people’s furniture, so you get accustomed to being careful with other people’s things. Like a thrift shop owner, I kept all kinds of junk at my place. I had gramophone records and hockey sticks hiding under my couch, along with some clothes a girl had left there and some large road signs I had somehow gotten my hands on. I couldn’t throw anything away since I didn’t know what belonged to me and what was someone else’s property. But from the very first day, the very first moment that I found myself here, there was a telephone receiver lying right there, on the floor, in the middle of the room. Its voice and its silence filled me with hatred. Before bed I’d cover it up with a large cardboard box and in the morning I’d take that box out to the balcony. The demonic apparatus lay in the center of the room; its jarring, irritating ring heralding that someone needed me after all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35509573419171,"sku":"9781941920305","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35509573451939,"sku":"9781941920312","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/014-Voroshilovgrad.jpg?v=1597090188"},{"product_id":"texas-the-great-theft","title":"Texas","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/deepvellum.org\/authors\/carmen-boullosa\/\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarmen Boullosa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTexas: The Great Theft.\u003c\/em\u003e 1859: Matasánchez and Bruneville. Two cities divided by the Río Bravo - or the Rio Grande, depending on which side you're on - filled with a volatile mix of characters... tensions are running high, and it all boils over one hot summer day...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eDecember 2, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781941920008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781941920015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mexico's greatest woman writer.\" —Roberto Bolaño\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa shows herself to be at the height of her powers with her latest novel. 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Author of seventeen novels, her books have been translated into numerous world languages. Recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship, Boullosa is currently Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamantha Schnee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis founding editor and chairman of the board of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e. She has also been a senior editor with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/em\u003e, and her translations have appeared in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, and the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\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\u003eNominated for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlobal Literature in Libraries Initiative Pick 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2015 PEN Translation Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2014 Typographical Era Translation Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e's 75 Notable Translations of 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eBBC\u003c\/em\u003e's Ten Books to Read in December 2014\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Utterly entertaining—a comic tour de force. I loved the book and think it deserves a very wide readership.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilip Lopate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A lucid translation from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee. . . . [Boullosa's] tale, loosely based on the Mexican invasion of the US known as the ‘Cortina troubles’, evok[es] a history that couldn’t be more relevant to today’s immigration battles in the US.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJane Ciabattari, \u003cem\u003eBBC\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Boullosa's tour de force account of this bloody legacy...is not a documentary. Rather, it is satire at its highest, presenting numerous grotesque biographies of the alien invaders, while also lightly reviewing the genres that have made Wild West literature part of the national identity and psyche. . . . In all, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTexas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a very entertaining, masterly written novel, with a professional translation by Samantha Schnee.\"\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicolás Kanellos, \u003cem\u003eReview: Literature and Arts of the Americas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Brutal, poetic, hilarious and humane...a masterly crafted tale.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSjón\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Boullosa is one of Mexico's most respected writers and, with a book as rich as this under her belt, it's not difficult to understand why. As the repercussions of a shoot-out reverberate on both sides of the Rio Bravo (or Rio Grande, depending upon the side you're on), we're introduced to a cast list so extensive it rivals Dickens and a novel of such depth and scope that I can't resist comparing it to Tolstoy's work.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGary Perry, Foyle's Flagship (Charing Cross, London)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Historical fiction at its very best, avoiding all semblance of caricature or appeals to stereotype. The classic Western.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"What is both moving and also lucid about Boullosa's prose, though, is her ability to take one in and out of a scene fraught with disorder and violence, and place one back in the rich spirit of humility encountering sublime beauty.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatt Pincus, \u003cem\u003eBookslut\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Many of the events in [Texas] seem as if they just happened yesterday. . . . It’s a story that shows the foundation of many border issues today.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMercedes Olivera, \u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Think \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e on the Mexican border. Carmen Boullosa's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTexas: The Great Theft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a surprisingly funny, intensely complex and occasionally shocking take on the revisionist Western. It's one of the most purely entertaining things I've read in awhile, while never losing a sense of erudite ambition and thought-provoking moral ambiguity. It's a book that grows on me every time I think about it.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJustin Souther, Malaprops Bookstore (Asheville, NC)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Carmen Boullosa’s latest novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTexas: The Great Theft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is evidence that our ideas about postmodern cowpoke tales have been woefully premature. . . . What is outstanding in Boullosa’s work is the deep sympathy expressed for every human encountered.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoberto Ontiveros, \u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"...a cross between W.G. Sebald and Gabriel García Márquez.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eEl País\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Boullosa’s Texas is like one giant game of telephone. Everybody seems crazy to everybody else. . . . Boullosa’s Texas gives us a very different fiction than those told by nationalists of any stripe. . . . Security is theater because borders are fictions and because the empire has no clothes. But if political theater is ridiculous, Boullosa’s borderlands comedy explores why it is getting harder to laugh at Donald Trump.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAaron Bady, \u003cem\u003ePacific Standard Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Bizarre, comedic, fantastical, and unsettling — kind of how history feels when you’re forced to live through it.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaille Millner, \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Powerful yet whimsical . . . Boullosa’s humorous, offbeat tale makes the case that – no matter how small or marginalized, no matter where it exists in relation to some arbitrary geographical or racial border – every perspective matters.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Eric Tomlinson, Writer's League of Texas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Boullosa’s book is a wonderful romp . . . delightful reading . . . there are few completely good and moral characters in this book, making it a pretty realistic story despite the fanciful storytelling. The book patched up some holes in my understanding of Texas history.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNancy Jane Moore, \u003cem\u003eBook View Café\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Carmen Boullosa truly brings history and injustice to life in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTexas: The Great Theft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, weaving together borrowed moments from the volatile history of the Texas-Mexico border and a simple plot that is gracefully fed by the diverse characters living out the story.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBridey Heing, \u003cem\u003eThe Mantle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTexas: The Great Theft\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel set on the Texas–Mexico border in 1859 and featuring a large cast of characters living in a historical moment rife with political and racial conflicts, is exhilarating both in scope and imagination.\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYiyun Lee, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEleven years have passed since the town of Bruneville was founded on the banks of the Rio Bravo, just a few miles up-river from the Gulf. It was named after Ciudad Castaño, the legendary shining city to the northwest, which was razed by the Apaches. In appropriating the name, Stealman aimed to trade on the sterling quality of the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt its founding, the following were present (without a shadow of a doubt):\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1) Stealman, the lawyer\u003cbr\u003e2) Kenedy, who owned the cotton plantation\u003cbr\u003e3) Judge Gold (back then he was plain Gold, he still hadn’t earned the nickname Judge)\u003cbr\u003e4) Minister Fear, his first wife, and their daughter Esther (may the latter two rest in peace)\u003cbr\u003e5) A pioneer named King.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKing had a royal name, though when he’d arrived in Mexico he hadn’t a penny, didn’t own even a snake. But he was a master of chicanery. When some locals lent him low-grade land to use for seven years, it took him only a few months to emerge as the legitimate owner of immense tracts, on which it seemed to rain cattle from the clouds, as if they were a gift from god. But there was nothing remotely miraculous about the way King made his fortune. He was as good a trickster as any magician with a false-bottomed top hat. If King had been Catholic (as he claimed to be in the contract he signed with the Mexicans), the archdiocese would have been able to build a cathedral with the fortune he’d have to have given them as penance for his sins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1848 King wasn’t the only one who went looking for a fortune, convinced that “Americans” had the right to take what belonged to the North Mexicans by whatever means necessary, fair or foul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarmen Boullosa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. She has published over a dozen novels, two of which were designated the Best Novel Published in Mexico by the prestigious magazine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eReforma\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e—her second novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBefore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, also won the renowned Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for Best Mexican Novel; and her novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLa otra mano de Lepanto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e was also selected as one of the Top 100 Novels Published in Spanish in the past 25 years. Her most recent novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTexas: The Great Theft\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e won the 2014 Typographical Era Translation Award, was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Translation Award, and has been nominated for the 2015 International Dublin Literary Award. Boullosa has received numerous prizes and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship. Also a poet, playwright, essayist, and cultural critic, Boullosa is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York, and her books have been translated into Italian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e Shelby Vincent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e received her PhD in Literary Translation from the University of Texas at Dallas's School of Arts and Humanities in 2015. She is currently translating another of Boullosa's novels entitled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Virgin and the Violin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, which is loosely based on the female Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola, and which Deep Vellum will publish in 2018.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35509183217827,"sku":"9781941920008","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35509183283363,"sku":"9781941920015","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/001-Texas.jpg?v=1597086786"},{"product_id":"home","title":"Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/deepvellum.org\/authors\/leila-s-chudori\/\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLeila S. Chudori\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTranslated from the Indonesian by John H. McGlynn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRecipient of the 2012 Khatulistiwa Literary Award, Indonesia's most prestigious literary prize, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a breathtaking, epic historical novel exploring the lives of Indonesian exiles from the 1965 anti-Communist massacre to the overthrow of Suharto in 1998.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePublications Date: October 27, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePaperback: 9781941920107\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eeBook: 9781941920114\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNominated for the FT\/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Award 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"An ambitious saga that intertwines narration from various generations and creates a wide-ranging picture of Indonesia.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"An epic saga of families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHome \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eexamines the tragedy of political exiles during Suharto's regime (1965-1998) forced out of Indonesia after the 1965 massacre of presumed leftists and sympathizers, alternating between Paris and Jakarta, delving into the lives of the exiles, their families and friends. A story of longing, lust, and betrayal, but also love, laughter, adventure, and mouthwatering descriptions of Indonesian food, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e further illuminates Indonesia's tragic twentieth-century history made known in the West by the Oscar-nominated documentary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Act of Killing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNominated for the FT\/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Award 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Chudori relentlessly examines the complexity of having a \"home\"; home can be both political and personal, and involve remembering and forgetting. . . . the novel stays grounded with nostalgic themes of food and love, anchoring the reader with mouthwatering detail and the intrigue of Romeo and Juliet–esque affairs.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"A writer with a fine appreciation of social collisions and domestic dramas that mirror wider political concerns. . . . Special mention must be made of John McGlynn’s translation, which admirably brings to life the energy of Chudori’s storytelling. Whether describing Indonesia – 'a place that gave the world the scent of cloves and a wasted sadness' – or contemplating the life of a flâneur 'building his home in the flow and motion of movement', McGlynn is consistently able to capture the musicality of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBahasa Indonesia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e on the page with pinpoint clarity – essential for a novel with a complicated, sometimes breathless structure.\" —Tash Aw, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"A story of families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"The suffering and loss that Suryo and the other exiles face, while realistic, is also utterly heartbreaking . . . The history might be new for American readers, but the relationship issues are universal. \" —Hannah Wise, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is an interesting and powerful novel, one worth reading and thinking over. It's a book that lingers in your consciousness, not to mention the way the characters seem unwilling to leave your mind even weeks after reading.\" —Meytal Radzinski, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBibiblio\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"If you liked the food writing in Kitchens of the Great Midwest, you might give this one a try. It’s set in Indonesia and Paris and has lots of scenes in restaurants that will make your mouth water. It’s a sprawling, engrossing story, and a great portrayal of political upheaval in very different cultures and across several decades.?\" —Rebecca Hussey, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Despite the background of violence and repression, it is also somehow a cosy read, about love and food in Paris and Jakarta.” —Hamish McDonald, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNikkei: Asian Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"An epic, ambitious slab of fiction crammed with a rich and diverse cast of characters whose lives have been swept along by Indonesia's dramatic and at times extremely tragic contemporary history . . . A wonderful exercise in humanism by a prodigious and impressive storyteller.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eJakarta Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Never less than fascinating . . . a wonderful introduction to Indonesian literature for readers with an interest in political, historical novels.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTony's Reading List\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"It is rare to pick up a novel as powerful and engrossing as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e by Leila Chudori The narrative spans time and place to cast reflections on love at first sight, complex family dynamics, and identity. With vivid depictions of Indonesian cuisine and its preparation, Chudori tackles universal subjects through multi generational perspectives. Bridging the 1960's revolt and uprisings in France and Indonesia, she sheds light on life as a forced expatriate in Paris. Walks through the Père Lachaise Cemetery, poetry, and an eventual return to home through a documentary assignment help create the narrative of this marvelous, yet heartbreaking novel. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is one of my absolute favorite books of 2015!\" —Patrick Kukucka, Bookseller at Malaprop's Bookstore (Asheville, NC)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"[\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e] is a novel of art and education, and also of food and its importance in cementing a sense of community and belonging. For English-speaking readers unfamiliar with Indonesian culture and history, the novel is an excellent introduction. For any reader, it’s a thought-provoking read and a satisfying examination of what it means to have and then lose and then try to find one’s home.\" —Rebecca Hussey, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFull-Stop\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"By turns beautiful, moving, tragic and life-affirming, and is a remarkable creative response to the barbarism of Suharto's notorious coup.\" —Gareth Richards, Bookseller at Gerakbudaya Bookshop (George Town, Penang, Malaysia)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"An excellent novel...[Chudori] tells a first-class story and, even if Indonesia is remote and unknown to us, we find ourselves sharing its troubles and very much taking the sides that Chudori wants us to take. This is her first novel and it is to be hoped that she writes more.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Modern Novel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"This is a book worthy of your attention for its illumination of a part of Indonesian history that has been consistently given short shrift. Read it for the history, for the evocative settings, and for the flavour of Indonesia that wafts gently from its pages.” —Samantha Brown, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTravelfish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOn Jalan Sabang, Jakarta, April 1968\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNight had fallen, without complaint, without pretext. Like a black net enclosing the city, ink from a monster squid spreading across Jakarta’s entire landscape—the color of my uncertain future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eInside the darkroom, I know not the sun, the moon, or even my wristwatch. But the darkness that envelopes this room is imbued with the scent of chemicals and anxiety.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThree years ago, the Nusantara News agency where I worked was cleansed of lice and germs like myself. The army was the disinfectant and we, the lice and the germs, were eradicated from the face of the earth, with no trace left. Yet, somehow, this particular louse had survived and was now eking out a living at Tjahaja Photo Studio on the corner of Jalan Sabang in central Jakarta.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI switched on the red light to inspect the strips of negatives hanging on the drying-line overhead. It must have been around 6 p.m. because I could hear the muzzled sound of the muezzin drifting in to the darkroom through the grate in the door, summoning the faithful for evening prayer. I imagined the scene on Jalan Sabang outside: the quarrelsome cackling of motorized pedicabs; the huffing and puffing of slow-moving opelets searching for passengers; the creaking of human-driven pedicabs in need of an oil job; the cring-cring sound of hand bells on bicycles as their riders wove their way through the busy intersection; and the cries of the bread seller on his three-wheel contraption with its large box and clear glass windows. I could even see the early evening wind bearing the smoke and smell rising from skewers of goat satay being grilled on the brazier at Pak Heri’s itinerant but immensely popular food stall located smack dab at the intersection of Sabang and Asem Lama. I could see him using his well-worn pestle to grind fried peanuts and thinly sliced shallots on an oversized mortar, then drizzling sweet soy sauce over the mix. And then I imagined my good friend, Dimas Suryo, studiously observing Pak Heri and discussing with him his choice of peanuts with the same kind of intensity that he might employ when dissecting a poem by Rivai Apin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAlmost every evening, like clockwork, all other sounds from the outside were drowned out by the long shrill whistle from the steamer on Soehardi’s food cart as our regular vendor of steamed putu—a favorite treat of mine, those steamed rice-flour balls with their grated coconut on the outside and melted cane sugar inside—pulled up outside the photo studio. But other than the smell of Pak Heri’s goat satay, that sound was about the only thing—that shrieking sound—that was able to make its way into the darkroom. The deadly darkness of the developing room seemed to smother almost every sound. But the screak of the putu steamer and the smell of the cakes always served as a rap on the doors and windows of the photo studio. It was a sign the time had come for me to leave this room that knew no such a thing as time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeila S. Chudori\u003c\/strong\u003e (Jakarta, 1962) is Indonesia's most prominent and outspoken female author \u0026amp; journalist. She has worked at the renowned Indonesian news magazine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTEMPO\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e since 1989, where she is now Senior Editor. A scholarship recipient, she completed university studies at Trent University in Canada and returned to Indonesia in 1988. Chudori started publishing as a child at the age of 12 in children's magazines, and she is the author of several anthologies of short stories, novels, TV \u0026amp; film scripts, Chudori is considered one of Indonesia's boldest storytellers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn H. McGlynn\u003c\/strong\u003e, a Wisconsin native, has lived in Jakarta since 1976. He received a masters degree in Indonesian language \u0026amp; literature from Michigan \u0026amp; he has translated or edited over 100 works. Through the Lontar Foundation, which he established with four Indonesian authors in 1987 to promote Indonesian culture internationally through literature, he has edited, translated, and published close to one hundred titles of and on Indonesian literature and culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35508697170083,"sku":"9781941920107","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35508697202851,"sku":"9781941920114","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/009-Home.jpg?v=1596836512"},{"product_id":"above-us-the-milky-way-an-illuminated-alphabet","title":"Above Us the Milky Way","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Fowzia Karimi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom Rona Jaffe award-winner Fowzia Karimi, a highly anticipated illustrated debut novel about a young family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland, leaving behind everything and everyone beloved and familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eApril 28, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHardback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646050024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646050031\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbove Us the Milky Way: An Illuminated Alphabet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a story about war, immigration, and the remarkable human capacity to create beauty out of horror. As a young family attempts to reconstruct their lives in a new and peaceful country, they are daily drawn back to the first land through remembrance and longing, by news of the continued suffering and loss of loved ones, and by the war dead, who have immigrated and reside with them, haunting their days and illuminating the small joys and wonders offered them by the new land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe novel’s structure is built around the alphabet, twenty-six pieces written in the first person that sketch a through-line of memory for the lives of the five daughters, mother, and father. Ghost stories and fairytales are woven with old family photographs and medieval-style watercolor illuminations to create an origin story of loss and remembrance. \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\"\u003eFowzia Karimi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and immigrated with her family to Southern California after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland, California, and has illustrated\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Brick House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e by \u003c\/span\u003eMicheline Aharonian Marcom (Awst Press) and\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVagrants and Uncommon Visitors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby A. Kendra Greene\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Anomalous Press). She is a recipient of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She lives in Texas.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2020 Foreword INDIES Editor's Choice Prize Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Big Other Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2021 Balcones Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2020 Fiction Discovery Prize Winner - WLT Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePubWest 2020 Book Design Bronze Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLonglisted for Reading the West Book Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eThrillist's\u003c\/em\u003e Best Books of 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“[\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbove Us the Milky Way\u003c\/em\u003e] has what certain great novels have — and I’m calling this a great novel intentionally — which is explicit working-out of narrative structure. This book has a really astute and generous conversation with its readers. An enchanting, inventive, and powerful novel.\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Michael Silverblatt, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBookworm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Structured as an illuminated alphabet, Karimi’s startling debut pieces together a pastiche of memory, folklore, and multilayered sense impressions with photographs from Karimi’s childhood and illustrations of her own making. The result is a sharply etched treatise on the objects of memory—encouraging a perhaps unavoidable comparison to Proust—which sets itself the monumental task of exploring the atrocity of war both as the bombs strike and as they reverberate down through the generations. Because, as Karimi concludes, a ‘war in one place is like a wound in all,’ and what else but the letters of an alphabet, or perhaps sisters, could, ‘give positive form to the formless’ by being ‘forever in two places at once: bound to their fixed positions—for who could reorder the sequence of an alphabet?—and leaving their posts to form this… word.’ A novel powerful in both its beauty and its uncompromising horror whose themes are as sadly timely as they are eternal.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Starred review,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“With enchantment and a pounding heart, I devoured this wondrous book, beautiful and fearless, rich in grace and compassion, deeply imagined and unlike any other. It is no less than marvelous.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Rikki Ducornet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“An ambitious abecedary of family, trauma and life and a love letter to the universe with many moments of power and resplendence.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jennifer Croft, author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomesick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Karimi’s inventive, allegorical debut renders a family’s wartime emigration through a polyphonic mix of voices and genres along with evocative color illustrations and photographs… Fans of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLost Children Archive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewill love this.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eFowzia Karimi's \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbove Us the Milky Way\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a complex mix of memory and fiction, telling the story of the dead, the living, and the effects of war...[her] lyrical prose creates this feeling of timelessness, of things beginning and ending and unfolding...The book becomes a joyous tribute to love and family.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Samantha Tonkins,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWorld Literature Today Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbove Us In the Milky Way\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a philosophical, richly sensory meditation on memory, loss, nostalgia, and the inheritances of war. Illustrated with family photographs and exquisite, often surreal, watercolors, Fowzia Karimi offers us intimate portals to grief, displacement, and survival.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Cristina García, author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere in Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand other novels\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Fowzia Karimi’s debut novel is an extraordinary book–one which is both witness to its time, an homage to Afghanistan, to family, and to what endures: stories and love and beauty. Inside it you will find humanity’s imaginary so beautifully disclosed.\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Micheline Aharonian Marcom, author of six novels including\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Brick House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand Creative Director of The New American Story Project\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A narrative that tells the stories of five young sisters, their mother and father, of the land that they had to leave, of the land they came to, of what was left behind, of what was found, of what was lost, of what was attained, of the passage of time in their lives and in the lives of others, passage not rendered chronologically, as time itself is not always experienced thus: these are the bare bones that comprise Fowzia Karimi’s remarkable\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbove Us the Milky Way\u003c\/em\u003e. Words here can’t suffice to say what she does beyond this. No one here is named and yet, in that ineffable way we know things though acknowledge mystery and what we can’t know, this book says so much in such a deep, basic, telling way – of life, loss, exile, the carrying of past into present and present to past, of future gazes, inheritance, of individual being, especially being being formed, and being of family in the best sense, what is exchanged and how affecting the ties amongst siblings. (What Fowzia Karimi does in that way alone, lord have mercy.) Words and places where there are not words – all have their place in this book. Reading this book – its use of the alphabet, its art, its running commentary on story, on what is deeply human and what is vaster and greater than the human, the realization and reckoning of which helps make for what is the human, our fleeting place among the places – is like coming upon a forgotten dream suddenly remembered and recognized, a dream feeling more familiar and real than whatever reality supposedly was, to the point that maybe what was in the dream – or this book – was real. This is storytelling of a high, profound, most beautiful order.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Rick Simonson, Elliot Bay Book Company\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The writing is seductive, compelling, horrifying, irresistible. The story is dreamlike in its framework and structure, with adult Karimi and the reader dragged back into a spectral but all-too-real childhood, and that is key: the dead are never really gone if they live on in the childhood memories she—and we—can never relinquish.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Chris Manno, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLone Star Literary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“It is Fowzia Karimi the artist we shall remember after reading the book as much as Fowzia Karimi and her family, the exiles and victims of war. This is a wonderful book.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Modern Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A skilled technician whose prose flows like intuition, Karimi parses the beats of her paragraphs with the attention of a poet. Rich with images and imagery, the book is beautiful, both illuminated and illuminating.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e, Leticia Montgomery-Rodgers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“For how experimental the novel gets, it never obstructs the family’s experience, everything from the small joys and the bold wonders a person may experience in a new land free of war.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrillist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Is this a novel? 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The surreal verse of Soto’s poems portrays a bleak political climate as it coincides with the rituals of love \u0026amp; loss, culture \u0026amp; spirituality, \u0026amp; the quest for a better life at all costs. Following the narrative arc of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s classic cult film,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e El Topo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Grave is Given Supper \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebuilds a world saturated with a mystical aura that describes the finite tensions \u0026amp; complicated desires of lives taking place in the borderland. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMike Soto\u003c\/strong\u003e is a first generation Mexican American, raised in East Dallas and in a small town in Michoacán. 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Soto offers up each poem like a votive candle, wreath of roses, or weapon, to lay on the altar of the outlaw Jesus Malverde, announcing the arrival of a new literary voice.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eFernando\u003c\/span\u003e A. \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eFlores\u003c\/span\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003ePig Latin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStuck on a Razor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“Soto describes insects, femicide and the border wall in mystical terms.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Jaime Dunaway, \u003cem\u003eAdvocate Mag\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“A surreal exploration of the Mexican drug war written in free verse… While many poems traverse…dreamlike terrain, they’re also sometimes grounded in reality. This is where the book is most gripping and provocative.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tim Diovanni, \u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLos Tigres del Norte warn, in a classic narcocorrido that I can imagine sputtering over the static of a sun-bleached radio in the border town where this collection is set, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSin talento no busques grandeza\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA Grave Is Given Supper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, a debut as hauntingly moving as a dog's three-legged waltz, Soto displays a talent that achieves that greatness, lyrically guiding us through the desperation, dehumanization, and senseless tragedies born of our war on drugs.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—David Shook, author of \u003cem\u003eObsidian Tongues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Across the book, poems spastically display the weight of both people and landscape in heartbreak and obituary...Holding the book together is the poet’s consistency of tone; Soto’s poems never falter at being both maturely concise and emotionally staggering.\" \u003cstrong\u003e— Greg Bem, \u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"\u003e“Combines neoclassicism’s equal temperament, the incisive excesses of the metaphysical poets, and Jamie Sabines-like political sensibilities.”\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Joe Milazzo, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eENTROPY \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"It’s been wonderful workshopping with Mike and adapting his words for the stage. A lot of our team are first-or second-generation people who have experienced some of the things touched on in the show: migration, drug wars, a journey from Mexico to the U.S.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Sara Cardona, Executive Artistic Director of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTeatro Dallas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eDallas Spleen \u003c\/em\u003eand previous work:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e“Soto drives a relentless narrative from poem to poem… a narrative composed of equal parts joy and rage.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“Soto eases into discomfort and renders it stunning.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Katy Dycus, The Wild Detectives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e“There is a deep, inescapable sadness in many of Mike Soto’s poems but it is a sadness for the world and never himself. It’s wrong to stereotype poets, even positively, but I think Soto’s Mexican literary heritage is deep in his bone marrow. It’s a rich, earthly, mystical tradition in which to have one’s taproots. These poems of light and life are compressed, but never crushed.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Thomas Lux\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35464601141411,"sku":"9781646050109","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35464601174179,"sku":"9781646050116","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/Soto.Front_Cover.RGB.jpg?v=1596659476"},{"product_id":"a-pedestrians-recent-history-of-dallas","title":"A Pedestrian's Recent History of Dallas","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Zac Crain\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003ePhoto series by \u003cem\u003eD Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e senior editor explores Dallas' downtown from a human, street-level perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eDecember 22, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHardback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646050062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781646050093\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCrain’s photos, taken on phones and during lunch breaks, show Dallas from a human perspective. In a city bound by car owners and wide roads, Zac Crain engages the pedestrian point of view with his infallible eye. No corner goes unexplored as Crain captures a similar place in a deeply original new way. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZac Crain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is senior editor of\u003cem\u003e D Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. He has written about the explosion in West, Texas; legendary country singer Charley Pride; Tony Dorsett's struggle with life after football; and imaginary meetings with a mosquito and a Pegasus. 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Foxes raise and then lose a human child. A man, in the final throes of his deathbed fever-dream, experiences a cross-Antarctic voyage. The stories in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFarthest South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the second story collection from renowned writer Ethan Rutherford, find characters in the most unexpectedly menacing of circumstances, in which their sanity, happiness, and safety are put to the test. Formally ambitious, with an eye toward the strange, with an inimitable style all Rutherford’s own, each story is nonetheless firmly grounded by a deep, human concern: the anxiety of family connection and humanity.\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\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEthan Rutherford\u003c\/strong\u003e’s fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBOMB, Tin House, Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, Post Road, Esopus, Conjunctions\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. His first book,\u003cem\u003e The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories,\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Award, received honorable mention for the PEN\/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award. 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Narratives that are all grace and ease at the beginning gradually become soaked in dread and hallucination. Reading them is by equal measures comforting and jolting, like sinking into a warm bath and feeling the brush of something living against your body.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Kevin Brockmeier, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Illumination\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"Ethan Rutherford's stories combine nail-biting tension with crystalline description, humor, and endings that are as marvelously strange as they are rewarding. Toggling between the eerie and the radiantly familiar, \u003cem\u003eFarthest South\u003c\/em\u003e is unsettling in all the best ways. This is a beautifully spellbinding book.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Julie Schumacher, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDear Committee Members\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e and \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Shakespeare Requirement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Ethan Rutherford’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFarthest South \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a spooky, sweet, wondrous short story collection.Rutherford’s stories possess undeniable darkness, and his collection maintains suspense throughout…There’s variety in the subject matter, but also in style, while occasional black-and-white illustrations add to the enjoyment.\" \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eThe Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Rutherford’s wildly inventive collection is nothing short of a revelation. From polar expeditions to family turmoil, no experience is beyond this very fine writer’s ambitious grasp. He gives us the world with each story, with the world’s full measure of heartbreak and hilarity.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Ben Fountain, National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBilly Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ethan Rutherford’s stories are funny and wrenching and feature hapless fatalists who nonetheless never stop striving, whose motto might be It’s Not Too Late to Take Responsibility for What We’re Doing, even as they continue to squander such opportunities. 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In the years thereafter, Nowitzki would spend his entire 21-season NBA career with the Dallas Mavericks, the longest tenure of any one player with one team in the league's history, and lead them to their first and only NBA championship, while being named a 14-time All-Star, a 12-time All-NBA Team member, and the first European player to receive the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZac Crain, award-winning journalist for \u003cem\u003eD Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e who moved to Dallas the same year that Nowitzki began his career in the city, memorializes Nowitzki’s career through a lyric essay reminiscent of Hanif Abdurraqib's \u003cem\u003eGo Ahead in the Rain\u003c\/em\u003e that mixes the author's story with the basketball legend's, charting the highs and lows (and mostly highs) of the Mavs' all-time statistical leader’s career. 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It's thoughtful and funny, and it will bring back all your memories from that season of magic.\"\u003cspan\u003e —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eD Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, Tim Rogers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Reunion","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35508706508963,"sku":"9781646050352","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35508706541731,"sku":"9781646050369","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/BigGermanCover2.jpg?v=1613767249"},{"product_id":"lone-star","title":"Lone Star","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMathilde Walter Clark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Danish by Martin Aitken and K. E. 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Clark was a resident artist at 100 W Corsicana in small-town Texas, where she worked on the manuscript for Lone Star. She is the winner of the Carlsberg Foundation’s Discovery of the Year prize in literature; Lone Star was awarded one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Danish Arts Foundation. She currently lives in Copenhagen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eK.E. Semmel's\u003c\/strong\u003e work has appeared in the\u003cem\u003e Ontario Review, Washington Post, World Literature Today, Southern Review, Subtropics, Lithub,\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. His translations include books by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarin Fossum, Naja Marie Aidt, Erik Valeur, Jussi Adler Olsen, Simon Fruelund, Kenneth B. Andersen, Thomas Rydahl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJesper Bugge Kold\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. He is a recipient of numerous grants from the Danish Arts Foundation and is a 2016 NEA Literary Translation Fellow. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Aitken\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarl Ove Knausgaard, Peter Høeg, Jussi Adler-Olsen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e Pia Juul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and his translations of short stories and poetry have appeared in many literary journals and magazines. In 2012 he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Translation Prize. In 2019 he was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLove\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e Hanne Ørstavik\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":36298682564771,"sku":"9781646050635","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":36298682597539,"sku":"9781646050642","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/LoneStar-RGB-101520.jpg?v=1602805901"},{"product_id":"the-accommodation","title":"The Accommodation","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jim Schutze\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewith a new foreword by John Wiley Price\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe powerful classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city, from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement, and the city’s desegregation efforts in the 1950s and ‘60s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 7, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781646050963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEbook\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9781646050970\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAudiobook\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9781646050741\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDallas Times Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDallas Observer\u003c\/em\u003e, and currently columnist at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eD Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003edetails the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in Dallas from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement, and the city’s desegregation efforts in the 1950s and ‘60s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for being an uninhibited and honest account of the city’s institutional and structural racism, Schutze’s book argues that Dallas’ desegregation period came at a great cost to Black leaders in the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Accommodation\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis one of the first major works about the history of race and racism in Dallas, and its importance to the counter narrative of ‘Dallas as a great city for all’ can’t be understated,” shares Jerry Hawkins, Executive Director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing \u0026amp; Transformation, who also serves on the Deep Vellum board of directors. “The telling of a Black story by a white author deserves continued critique and interrogation, however with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Accommodation\u003c\/em\u003e, Jim Schutze delivered a must-read treatise about racism in Dallas that was both eye-opening and prophetic.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Accommodation\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ewas originally set to be published by Taylor Publishing Company of Dallas in 1986 before being dropped from publication. It was then published by Citadel Press of New Jersey in 1987 before rights were purchased by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile long out of print, this title has seen repeated waves of interest among Dallas residents since its original publication. Most recently, it has been called “The Most Dangerous Book in Dallas” by Peter Simek of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eD Magazine\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand “essential reading to understand Dallas” (Tim Diovanni,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e) and has been distributed digitally and in samizdat printouts among Dallasites interested in learning more about what makes Dallas the city it is, and how to address that history to build a better, more inclusive city together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Accommodation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e makes for a crackling but unusual read, merging a lifelong beat reporter’s gimlet eye for backroom corruption with a self-taught historian’s propensity for narrative sweep, animated throughout by a sincere and galvanizing rage at Dallas’s white leadership.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Rob Madole,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“[T]he real, uncensored story of how Dallas managed to avoid the far-reaching changes wrought on other major cities by the civil rights movement…In its pages lies the story of how the city, led by its secretive Dallas Citizens Council, kept the civil rights movement largely at bay, mostly by currying favor with an elite group of Black ministers and establishing housing enclaves for the Black middle class, while leaving the poor behind.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chris Vognar, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One chapter of Texas’ civil rights legacy is opening back up. A long-suppressed book about politics and race in Dallas is growing in popularity… The resurgence of \u003cem\u003eThe Accommodation\u003c\/em\u003e is so important to so many.”\u003cstrong\u003e ­\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eCBS This Morning Saturday\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An essential gift delivered almost four decades before Dallas was ready to receive it.”\u003cstrong\u003e –John Wiley Price, Dallas County Commissioner \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The Accommodation\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the first major works about the history of race and racism in Dallas, and its importance to the counter narrative of ‘Dallas as a great city for all’ can’t be understated… The telling of a Black story by a white author deserves continued critique and interrogation, however with \u003cem\u003eThe Accommodation\u003c\/em\u003e, Jim Schutze delivered a must-read treatise about racism in Dallas that was both eye-opening and prophetic.” \u003cstrong\u003e– Jerry Hawkins, Executive Director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing \u0026amp; Transformation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A 199-page book published in 1987 has again caught our eyes… Viewing the long out-of-print text as vital reading to understand the city, some Dallas residents have shared the book amongst themselves digitally and in bootleg form for decades.” \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTim Diovanni, \u003cem\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A masterpiece of history and insight. 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Spurned by their loved ones and denied treatment by hospitals, the sick are left to die on the streets until a beauty salon owner, whose previous caretaking experience extended only to the exotic fish tanks scattered among his workstations, opens his doors as a refuge. In the ramshackle Mortuary, victim to persecution and violence, he accompanies his male guests as they suffer through the lifeless anticipation of certain death, eventually leaving the wistful narrator in complete, ill-fated isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLambda Literary's September 2021 Most Anticipated LGBTQ Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A strange and elegiac little novel, steeped in sadness and decay. 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His short novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/beauty-salon\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBeauty Salon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e was first published during one pandemic and is now available in a new translation during another…This new translation, by Shook, offers readers a clear and resonant account of Bellatin’s work; the combination makes for a tense, moving book…[A] particularly haunting read.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tobias Carroll, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"Like much of Mr. Bellatin's work, \u003ci\u003eBeauty Salon \u003c\/i\u003eis pithy, allegorical and profoundly disturbing, with a plot that evokes \u003ci\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/i\u003e by Camus or \u003ci\u003eBlindness\u003c\/i\u003e by Jose Saramago.\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e“What [the narrator] has given to [his patients], and Bellatin to us, is a model for dying, and for living; for treating the abject body with honesty and respect, despite its difference and decay—perhaps because of it.”\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaggie Riggs, \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\"Including a few details that may linger uncomfortably with the reader for a long time, this is contemporary naturalism as disturbing as it gets.\"–\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\"An unflinching allegory on death.\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\"When this disquieting novella appeared, Mexican (and even Latin American) literature changed.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e—Francisco Goldman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e\"Bellatin's short novel on the space between hope \u0026amp; hopelessness manages to be both cynical and empathetic, picking apart the mechanisms we use to get to the end of the day, while also, somehow, giving us the push we need to get there. The Beauty Salon is  the perfect plague story, because, the plague is less a character in the plot, then the stage hand that pulls back the curtain to reveal the true nature of our society.\"\u003cstrong\u003e —Josh Cook, Bookseller, Porter Square Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003e“Having more or less avoided pandemic works during the covid pandemic, it was probably about time to read a pandemic novel, However, this is not a pandemic novel but, rather, a pandemic story. 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A practicing Sufi, Bellatin has won many international prizes, including, most recently, Cuba’s 2015 José María Arguedas Prize. 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How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCovering a range of approaches – from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce – these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, and peace treaties that span parallel universes. Published originally in the United Kingdom by Comma Press in 2019, \u003cem\u003ePalestine +100\u003c\/em\u003e reframes science fiction as a place for political justice and the safekeeping of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBasma Ghalayani, editor, was born in Khan Younis and spent her early childhood in the UK before returning to the Gaza Strip at age 12. 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The pieces herein address the resonance of personal memories and regrets, the political world, and sexuality. In light of the complexity of human identity, Devi emphasizes the importance of each word chosen, speaking directly to the reader and asking them to “peel back my skin. Unclothe me of myself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Mauritius, Ananda Devi is one of the major French language writers and was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2010. Her literary awards include the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (2006) and Prix Télévision Suisse Romande (2007) for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEve Out of Her Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the Prix Louis-Guilloux (2010) and the Prix Mokanda (2012) for other works. The English edition of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEve Out of Her Ruins\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Deep Vellum in 2015. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKazim Ali has translated books by Marguerite Duras, Sohrab Sepehri, and Mahmoud Chokrollahi. His own work as a poet and writer includes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebooks of poetry, fiction, essays and mixed genre work. He\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If I had only one word to define this book, it would be aliveness—a synonym, plausibly, in Ananda Devi’s idiolect, for freedom. Everything—from the Night in the title, to skin, to mud, to a green sari, to sound, to Time itself—is alive ... Translated with calm dexterity and breathtaking attention by Kazim Ali, this is a collection that held my body—eyes and heart and brain—in its jaws from beginning till end.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Karthika Naïr\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ananda Devi is an Indian writer from Mauritius now living in France, or a French writer with her roots on the island and South Asia, or a Mauritian writer in the tradition of great colonized voices who have renewed French poetry and prose—or a feminist poet and novelist without borders. This book of harsh lyric and enigmatic, theoretical and erotic prose, takes on a second life in Kazim Ali’s sensitive translation.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Marilyn Hacker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The work of Mauritian poet Ananda Devi is rightly celebrated in the Francophone world and in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen the Night Agrees to Speak to Me\u003c\/em\u003e, the Anglophone world gets a glimpse of the depth and complexity of this writer’s thinking and lived experience. In Kazim Ali’s translation, the allusive density of Ananda Devi’s poetry is clarified and given air. We see the way Devi transfers agency to the real and the abstract: the ‘mud about which\/ The future has nothing to say’ and also the ‘woman erased by her bruises’. Devi’s poetry has suffering, resignation but also a deep, visceral joy that shines through. Ali, as a poet himself, is very conscious of what it takes to live upon an earth riven by borders and crossings of all kinds, and he brings all of that experience to this translation.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Sridala Swami\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42222186594553,"sku":"9781646051885","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42222186627321,"sku":"9781646051892","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/WhentheNightAgreestoSpeaktoMe_FINAL.jpg?v=1640207943"},{"product_id":"the-miraculous-true-history-of-nomi-ali","title":"The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Uzma Aslam Khan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner: 2023 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA New York Times' pick for “Best Historical Fiction 2022”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA New York Times' pick for “Books for Summer 2022”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in the Andaman Islands over the course of oppressive imperial regimes, \u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali\u003c\/em\u003e is a complex, gripping homage to those omitted from the collective memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17th, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646051649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646054381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eeBook:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781646051656\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable in paperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 21st, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is a lyrical, gripping homage to those omitted from the collective memory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNomi and Zee are Local Borns—their father a convict condemned by the British to the Andaman Islands, their mother shipped off with him. When war descends upon this overlooked outpost of Empire, the British are forced out and the Japanese move in. The islands—and the seas surrounding them—become a battlefield, resulting in tragedy for some and a brittle kind of freedom for others, who find themselves increasingly entangled in a mesh of alliances and betrayals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmbitiously imagined and hauntingly alive, Uzma Aslam Khanwrites into being the interwoven stories of people caught in the vortex of colonial collision, powerless save for their own bravery and empathy. \u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic telling of a largely forgotten chapter in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Information\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUzma Aslam Khan\u003c\/strong\u003e is the award-winning author of five novels translated worldwide to critical acclaim. These include \u003cem\u003eTrespassing\u003c\/em\u003e, recipient of a Commonwealth Prize nomination in 2003; \u003cem\u003eThe Geometry of God\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e' Best Book of 2009; \u003cem\u003eThinner Than Skin\u003c\/em\u003e, nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize and DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and winner of the French Embassy Prize for Best Fiction at the Karachi Literature Festival 2014. Khan’s fifth novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Karachi Literature Festival-Getz Pharma Fiction Prize and the UBL Literary Awards English Language Fiction category in Pakistan, and in India was shortlisted for the TATA Literature Live! Best Book of the Year, Fiction. \u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali\u003c\/em\u003e was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e' pick for \"Best Historical Fiction 2022\" and “Books for Summer 2022.” It won the 2023 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction. Born and raised primarily in Pakistan, Khan has also lived in the Philippines, Japan, England, Morocco, and Oceania. She currently makes a home in western Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner: 2023 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e' pick for “Best Historical Fiction 2022”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e' pick for “Books for Summer 2022”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A miraculous performance . . . Khan's suspenseful, thought-provoking narrative is a challenge to simple assumptions about enemies and friends, loyalty and betrayal.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Alida Becker, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Deeply researched and beautifully written.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Khan engages readers with a confident style and seamless storytelling.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As affecting as it is intellectually powerful, the novel is a master lesson in the art of historical fiction.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Pankaj Mishra\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A glorious novel about a forgotten place and a part of our history that we hardly ever talk about.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Mohammed Hanif\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With piercingly lucid attention, [Khan] has drawn an intricate spider’s web that is both a record and a refuge . . . the tenderness with which [she] writes is a kind of intervention of knowing that is in opposition to the colonial one.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Aracelis Girmay, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“(A) lyrical novel . . . The past isn’t ever dead and politics with distinct contemporary echoes suffuses the novel . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali\u003c\/em\u003e has the additional virtue of being written by a South Asian author who tells the story mostly through the eyes of ordinary people, especially in her focus on entirely powerless adolescents, rather than their political and social masters. It is also a story of how hope and even dreams can adapt to just about anything.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Asian Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“For every historical outrage eventually there comes along a work of fiction that does it justice . . . miraculously [lifting] the mists of collective forgetfulness. \u003cem\u003eThe Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali\u003c\/em\u003e performs that vital and welcome miracle. Voices from the past have been successfully captured and amplified by this remarkable novel . . . [with a] dream-like quality to the beautiful prose.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Osama Siddique, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Herald and Scroll\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“One of the best works of historical fiction I have ever read . . . [illuminating] a very little-known aspect of a period in time that has been otherwise extensively written about. It is an ode to the complexity and interconnectedness of human history and to the redeeming power of kindness and compassion, even in the midst of the most relentless of tragedies.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Book Riot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Part of the beauty of Khan’s writing stems from the fact that she does not need to actively portray racism, she makes virtually all her characters live it . . . 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The book opens with a poet’s diary recording the violence that has unfolded in Belarus since its 2020 presidential election.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e paints an intimate portrait of the poet’s struggle with fear, despair, and guilt as she goes to protests, escapes police, longs for readership, learns about the detention of family and friends, and ultimately chooses life in exile. But can she really escape the contaminated farmlands of her youth and her Belarusian mother tongue? Can she escape the radiation of her motherfield?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first collection of Julia Cimafiejeva’s poetry in English, prepared by cotranslators and poets Valzhyna Mort and Hanif Abdurraqib.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Cimafiejeva\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Belarusian poet and translator, and the author of four poetry collections in Belarusian. Her work has been translated into many languages and appeared in different projects, anthologies and magazines, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry International, Literary Hub, Financial Times, Lyrikline,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and others. Cimafiejeva translates from English and Norwegian. She is the winner of Carlos Sherman prize for the translations of poems by Stephen Crane. She currently lives in Graz, Austria with her husband, where she has been since 2020 at the invitation of the Kulturvermittlung Steiermark.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eValzhyna Mort\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eFactory of Tears\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), \u003ci\u003eCollected Body\u003c\/i\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) and, mostly recently, \u003ci\u003eMusic for the Dead and Resurrected\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2020), named one of the best poetry book of 2020 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the winner of the International Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHanif Abdurraqib\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of multiple award-winning and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling books, including poetry collections \u003ci\u003eThe Crown Ain't Worth Much\u003c\/i\u003e (Button Poetry, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eA Fortune for Your Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e (Tin House, 2019) and nonfiction collections \u003ci\u003eThey Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us\u003c\/i\u003e (Two Dollar Radio, 2017), \u003ci\u003eGo Ahead in the Rain: A Tribe Called Quest\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Texas Press, 2019), and \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America\u003c\/i\u003e (Random House, 2021).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The language I wish to speak \/ isn't contained in words,\" writes Julia Cimafiejeva, while giving us these moving words of witness and testimony, compelling poems of kinship, of bravery and fear and reckoning: \"we came back for a visit,\" she writes, \"only cemetery crosses \/ waved at us with rags \/ of their embroidered towels.\" There is so much lyricism in this painful reckoning, the language itself uplifts even as it doubts itself in a time of great upheaval: \"I approach the territory of a foreign language \/ as a melancholy spy \/ I must steal a secret \/ of these strange hills.\" Poetry here doesn't just survive despite translation between languages, but because of it. And for that, my special gratitude is to Cimafiejeva's brilliant translators, Valzhyna Mort and Hanif Abdurraqib. The horrors of reality in today's Belarus, the beatings and tortures of prisoners, the eerie presence of Chernobyl disaster in these pages, all true, all heart-breaking, and all also somehow carried through to us by beautiful, memorable, unrelenting words.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Ilya Kaminsky, author of \u003cem\u003eDancing in Odessa\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e“Julia Cimafiejeva’s \u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e is a minefield of memory. I close my eyes, recall the events that unfolded in my own country in 2020 and 2021. The similarities of our recent histories—the stun grenades, rubber bullets, beatings, and detentions—are striking. Still, there’s no mistaking \u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e’s singularity, which is to say Cimafiejeva’s dexterity.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Nicole Sealey, author of \u003cem\u003eOrdinary Beast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A dual-language publication, \u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e reads like a testament to the innate multilingualism of Belarus. And after all, what Belarusians say matters just as much as what language they say it in. . . In \u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e, Cimafiejeva has proved herself to be a bad student of fear. She wields her flexed, forceful verses like that mightiest of muscles — the tongue.\" \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jennifer Wilson, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A devastatingly beautiful and essential read.\"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e —Pierce Alquist, \u003cem\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e is a forceful diptych pairing the poet’s protest diary (spanning the period from Belarus’ 2020 presidential election to March 2021, after the poet has settled in Austria) with poems flowing from days full of fear and hope.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Layla Benitez-James, Harriet Books (Poetry Foundation)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offering historical, political, and personal context to the poems that follow it, the diary is an activist’s account, but it is also a poet’s account; some of its moves and images linger and react with the poems’ more distilled elements…In the end the speaker keeps a 'beaten hope' that 'builds its nest \/ On my roof and sings \/ In Belarusian.' This poem, unlike others, is dated: August 5, 2020, just before the election, before the crackdown, before the president remained, again, in power. The beginning is at the end, enacting the cyclical nature of the “beaten hope” the poem names…[I]f \u003cem\u003eMotherfield\u003c\/em\u003e’s final poem relies on the protest diary for context, the poems that precede it—their images of wordlessness, thwarted regeneration, and ecological catastrophe—give the book its depth, and announce Julia Cimafiejeva as a poet that English language readers will want to follow in the future.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Jessica Johnson, \u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\"\u003e\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis book is a sword; its poems cut through so much clutter to the white-hot \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewire of social, political, and personal injustice—warranted, searingly expressed, and yet somehow also nondogmatic, intuitively right, and artistically original. These poems speak volumes; to an astute reader, they can also serve as a warning. 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The novel is grounded in the reality of Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life, while on a broad scale Solenoid's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines attempt to reconcile the realms of life and art. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis preventorium, encounters with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. One character asks another: When you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining fiction with autobiography and history—Nikola Tesla and Charles Hinton, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript—\u003ci\u003eSolenoid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e searches for escape routes through the \u003c\/span\u003ealternate dimensions of life and art, as various monstrous dimensions erupt within the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMircea Cărtărescu\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, professor, and journalist who has published more than twenty-five books. His work has received the Formentor Prize (2018), the Thomas Mann Prize (2018), the Austrian State Prize for Literature (2015), and the Vilenica Prize (2011), among many others. His work has been translated in twenty-three languages. His novel \u003ci\u003eBlinding\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Archipelago in Sean Cotter's English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSean Cotter\u003c\/strong\u003e is a translator and professor of literature and translation at the University of Texas at Dallas. A previous National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, Cotter is the translator of 11 books, including T.O. Bobe’s \u003ci\u003eCurl\u003c\/i\u003e and Nichita Stănescu’s \u003ci\u003eWheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry. His translation of Magda Cârneci's \u003ci\u003eFEM\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the PEN Translation Award, was published by Deep Vellum in 2021. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A masterwork of Kafkaesque strangeness, brilliantly conceived and written.\"  \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSolenoid\u003c\/em\u003e. . . is a novel made from other novels, a meticulously borrowed piece of hyperliterature. . .That fictive texture is part and parcel of the novel’s sense of unreality, which not only blends the pedestrian and the bizarre, but also commingles many features of the literary avant-garde. . . In this way, he plays both critic and apologist throughout, a delicious dialectic whose final, ravishing synthesis exists in the towering work of \u003cem\u003eSolenoid\u003c\/em\u003e itself.\"\u003cstrong\u003e —Dustin Illingworth, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\"Instead of delivering a sharp, succinct punch, Solenoid goes the way of the oceanic—rejecting brevity because the author, a Romanian Daedalus, is laying the foundation for a narrative labyrinth…The writing itself is hypnotic and gorgeously captures the oneiric quality of Cărtărescu’s Bucharest…Cotter’s translation is attentive to the efficiency of Cărtărescu’s ornate but surprisingly approachable prose, gliding from sentence to sentence and calling little attention to itself. The sheer immensity of Cotter’s undertaking combined with the unfailing evenness of the translation’s quality is nothing short of remarkable.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Ben Hooyman, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\"The great fun of this teeming hodge-podge is the way that Mr. Cărtărescu tweaks the material of daily life, transmuting the banal into the fantastical.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Sam Sacks, \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\"[S]omething of a masterpiece. . . \u003cem\u003eSolenoid\u003c\/em\u003e synthesizes and subtly mocks elements of autofiction and history fiction by way of science fiction. The result is unlike any genre in ambition or effect, something else altogether, a self-sufficient style that proudly rejects its less emancipated alternatives. . . The mesmerizing beauty of creation, of reality giving way to itself: that, above all, lies behind the doors of \u003cem\u003eSolenoid\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Federico Perelmuter, \u003cem\u003eAstra Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eThe Solenoid Reader\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/the-solenoid-reader\" title=\"THE SOLENOID READER\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/the-solenoid-reader\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplore \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/the-solenoid-reader\" title=\"THE SOLENOID READER\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/the-solenoid-reader\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSolenoid\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/the-solenoid-reader\" title=\"THE SOLENOID READER\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/the-solenoid-reader\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e further with the \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/the-solenoid-reader\" title=\"THE SOLENOID READER\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/the-solenoid-reader\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSolenoid \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/the-solenoid-reader\" title=\"THE SOLENOID READER\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/products\/the-solenoid-reader\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eReader, a free companion download!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA \u003c\/em\u003eSolenoid\u003cem\u003e Reader is the opposite of a book of sources, because the novel’s networks do not lead backward. Reading all the texts mentioned in Solenoid would do nothing to unravel its mysteries. We move from Solenoid forward to the texts, searching, in the manner of the novel. 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The events in the plot relate to the notorious recent law banning forms of expression that “offend the sensibilities” of religious believers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this novel, Ganieva moves beyond the Dagestani setting and themes of her previous writing to address contemporary themes such as nationalism, Orthodox religiosity, sexuality, and political corruption. She addresses these weighty issues with a light touch and at times rollicking sense of humor that will keep the reader turning the pages. This timely, entertaining and thought-provoking novel can be read as an allegory for the current political, social, religious, and cultural climate in Russia today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlisa Ganieva\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer of fiction and essays. In 2009, her first long story - \"Salam, Dalgat!\" about her native land in the Caucasus - won the prestigious Debut Prize a major literary award for young writers. Ganieva is the author of three novels, all of which have been published in English by Deep Vellum: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBride and Groom, The Mountain and the Wall,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOffended Sensibilities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarol Apollonio\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches at Duke University. 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Definitely one to read and shout about.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Niven Govinden, author of \u003cem\u003eDiary of A Film \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThis Brutal House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"Sinha lays bare so much of the nuance and violence imposed on individuals by the systems in the world meant to keep certain people down.\" \u003cstrong\u003e— Emma Ramadan, translator of Anne Garréta\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"Through the poetic force of her writing, Sinha brings a broken world to burning point.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"I read \u003cem\u003eDown with the Poor!\u003c\/em\u003e sitting by myself in the cold, and the book didn’t distract me from the chill – in fact, it only intensified it, seeping in through my toes, and freezing my fingers as I turned page after page. I wanted to stop reading it. It was overwhelming. 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Ernest McMillan came of age within a loving family and a nurturing community, virtually shielded from the outside--rampaging tides of white supremacy and a caste system squarely based on color. Dallas is often portrayed as a city in which the Civil Rights movement bypassed, but those claims are mythical in word and deed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcMillan's emergence into manhood fighting for equal rights in the “Black Belt” South and his return to his birthplace to challenge the status quo of the white power structure brought him face to face with forces that were dead set on wiping him off the planet entirely, or imprisoning him in perpetuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eM. 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At the same time, her poems also unsparingly explore the external shifts (in the speaker’s surroundings and even her memories) that make it so challenging to retain an unassailable sense of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-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\u003eMariana Spada\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Entre Ríos, Argentina, in 1979. She studied Literature in Santa Fe, Argentina, and lived in Buenos Aires for about a decade before moving to Barcelona, Spain, where she currently resides. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Law of Conservation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Mexico City-based poet and Spanish-to-English translator. 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The journey, both inward and outward, simple and infinitely varied, brings Alma to reconsider her whole life and the circumstances that led to her very birth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eForgetting\u003c\/i\u003e, Finkelstein sheds new light on the oldest dilemmas, asking: \"What to do with the brief time that is given to us?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrederika Amalia Finkelstein\u003c\/strong\u003e is a French writer and author of two novels:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eForgetting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurvive\u003c\/i\u003e. 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He is currently editor of Dalhousie French Studies and music columnist for the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDalhousie Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife Kate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Finkelstein’s fascinating English-language debut chronicles a 20-something woman grappling with intergenerational trauma in 2010s France … Grounded by its protagonist’s distinctive, powerful voice, the novel brims with thought-provoking reflections on such weighty subjects as the passage of time and the politics of history and memory ('We made the victims into a cluster of numbers, and then we turned the executioners into a tangle of myths,' Alma notes about the Holocaust). 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As night bleeds into morning, she wanders the empty streets, ruminating upon the life of her grandfather—a Polish Holocaust survivor—as well as her own childhood … A brilliant, peculiar confrontation with genealogy and inheritance.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42882720366841,"sku":"9781646052264","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42882720399609,"sku":"9781646052523","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/9781646052264_FC.jpg?v=1654639392"},{"product_id":"not-one-day","title":"Not One Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Garréta\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the French by Emma Ramadan and the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfterword by Sarah Gerard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSecond edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of Prix Médicis 2002\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the 2018 Albertine Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinalist for the 2018 Lamba Literary Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinalist for the 2018 French American Foundation Translation Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable in a new edition, Anne Garréta's sensual portrayal of trysts past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003eFebruary\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 28, 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaperback\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e: 9781646052059\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eeBook\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e: 9781646052318\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tour de force of experimental queer feminist writing, \u003ci\u003eNot One Day\u003c\/i\u003e is renowned Oulipo member Anne Garréta's intimate exploration of the delicate connection between memory, fantasy, love, and desire. \u003cspan\u003eGarréta, author of the acclaimed genderless love story \u003ci\u003eSphinx\u003c\/i\u003e and experimental novel \u003ci\u003eIn Concrete\u003c\/i\u003e, vows to write every day about a woman from her past. 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But it would be simpler to say that reading it is like meeting someone new and feeling the world come undone. Here is a book that insists that the desire for fiction, for its mimicry and its mirage, is indistinguishable from the desire for another person.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Merve Emre, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Winner of the Prix Medicis, this intense collection of Garreta’s memories of past loves—written under strict Oulipian constraints—is at times at once tender, bitter, and intimate.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Garréta more or less perfected the post-modern confessional, doing so with a self-awareness that many authors fail to accomplish… \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNot One Day\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a casual revelation; a delight.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sean Redmond, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003efields Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Deep Vellum has brought out one of the best books I’ve read this year, one whose compact nature contains more room inside than might be guessed from its modest exterior. Happily, Anne Garréta’s ambition is to create books that are not the products of an assembly line.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jeff Bursey, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Winnipeg Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eANTE SCRIPTUM\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhat to do about one’s inclinations?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYou could write something different, differently than you usually do. Once again, but with a new twist, rid yourself of your self. Shed the forms that witness this disentangling, try to differ even more from what you believe yourself to be. Since you can’t seem to conceive of writing except in long and carefully considered constructions, isn’t it time to go against the grain?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe next novel you’re envisioning, the calculations you’re mulling over, will take you years of research, composition, writing. You pity your few readers and always take care not to exceed their patience and good will. In the meantime, you would like to offer them what you suspect they desire: a distraction, the illusion of an unveiling of what they imagine to be a subject. For they charitably assume you to be—a common failing up until perhaps a bit further into the future—a real me.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSince you don’t have the heart to tell them (and besides, they would refuse to believe this terrifying bit of news, since we haven’t yet managed to sleep off the dead drunkenness of our little self) that no subject ever expresses itself in any narration, you have resolved to feign, (or at least to borrow), the incline one now thinks of as natural, and to force yourself into the genre of writing formerly called “intimate.” Recount our lives is all we seem to do these days, through the angle thought for more than a century to give it meaning, to be the universal key. In short, the skeleton key of subjectivity: desire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAnd you could say, like—and against—Rousseau, he himself who inaugurated or completed our corruption: “We must have spectacles in the metropolises of the post-modern era, and confessions for idolatrous people. I have seen the mores of my times, and I have published these letters. Would I had lived in an age when I should have thrown them into the fire!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe irony delights you before you have even written a line. You will play at a very old game that has become the hobbyhorse of a modernity balking at radical disenchantment: confession, or how to scrape the bottoms of mirrors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOn a September day in 1835, on a path near Lake Albano, Stendhal or Henry Beyle or Henry Brulard—which of the three? Who knows…perhaps all three at once—draws in the sand the initials of the women he has loved: V, An, Ad, M, Mi, Al, Aine, Apg, Mde, C, G, Aur, and finally Mme Azur. The first name of this last one escapes him. The list of an unlucky Don Juan: “In reality, I had only six of the women I have loved.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eH.B. here offers you the outline of a project, melancholic, tinged with cruel irony, and rather well suited to your convalescence: the stammering alphabet of desire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIf you aim to thwart your habits and your inclinations, you might as well go about it systematically. Here is the discipline you have resolved (one cannot more radically differ nor dissemble from oneself any more than you set about doing here). It amounts to a maxim: Not one day without a woman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhich simply means that you will allocate five hours (the time it takes a moderately well-trained subject to compose a standard academic essay) each day, for a month, at your computer, to recount the memory you have of one woman or other whom you have desired or who has desired you. The narrative will be just that: the unwinding of memory in the strict framework of a determined moment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYou will write as one goes to the office; you will be the functionary of your desire’s memory, thirty-five hours a week. Neither more nor less than five hours per initial.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYou will take them in the order in which they come back to mind. You will then put them down in the impersonal order of the alphabet. To hell with chronology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYou forbid yourself from using your usual tools: no pen, nothing but the keyboard. No draft, no notebook to gather bits and pieces, no considered and composed architecture, no other rule than these, purely material and logistical, that you assign to the act.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNo other principle than to write from memory. 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This journal is a harrowing record of the months leading up to and after the invasion, as Kurkov and his family migrate to western Ukraine for shelter. Surrounded by others fleeing violence, he pens incisive dispatches on the latest border conflicts and bombardments, and the shifts and schisms inside Ukrainian social and political life. These wartime entries ruminate on Ukraine’s historic past and possibilities for its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn avid political commentator, Kurkov has written for prominent English newspapers, delivered lectures, and been interviewed across Europe on the war in Ukraine. Now with an introduction by \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e  Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller and a 2025 afterword from the author reflecting on the years that have elapsed since the war began, \u003cem\u003eDairy of an Invasion\u003c\/em\u003e  is a deeply affecting glimpse into the day-to-day realities of millions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Information\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn near Leningrad in 1961, \u003cstrong\u003eAndrey Kurkov\u003c\/strong\u003e was a journalist, prison warder, cameraman and screenplay-writer before he became well known as a novelist. He received “hundreds of rejections” and was a pioneer of self-publishing, selling more than 75,000 copies of his books in a single year. His novel \u003cem\u003eDeath and the Penguin\u003c\/em\u003e, his first in English translation, became an international bestseller, translated into more than thirty languages. As well as writing fiction for adults and children, he has become known as a commentator and journalist on Ukraine for the international media. His work of reportage, \u003cem\u003eUkraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2014, followed by the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Bickford Fuse\u003c\/em\u003e (MacLehose Press, 2016). He lives in Kyiv with his British wife and their three children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e is the chief Ukraine correspondent for the\u003cem\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/em\u003e and author of\u003cem\u003e The War Came To Us: Life And Death In Ukraine\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2024 Witold Pilecki International Book Award. He has lived in and worked in Ukraine since 2010, reporting on Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution, Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and its invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. He has broken major international news stories, including uncovering Russian war crimes, with his reporting cited as evidence before the International Criminal Court. Miller was previously a world and national security reporter for Politico and a world correspondent for BuzzFeed News. When he’s not in Kyiv or on the front lines in eastern Ukraine, he lives with his wife and two Ukrainian cats in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What the book offers that international reportage can’t is surprising detail . . . [Kurkov’s] voice is genial but also impassioned.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Blake Morrison, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Kurkov’s book seethes with a quiet fury. Yet this is not a war diary in the classic sense. There are no firsthand descriptions of raging battles or soldiers with thousand-yard stares. Instead, in his precise, laconic prose, Kurkov describes the dreadful minutiae of the war and how the conflict has altered the lives of every Ukrainian . . . Kurkov captures with grim accuracy the destruction of the rhythms of everyday life.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Marc Bennetts, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Kurkov’s account, which begins in December 2021 during the buildup of Russian forces along Ukraine’s border and ends in July 2022 as the war grinds on, life in a war zone is both bloody and banal, agonizing and absurd . . . Yet what makes Kurkov’s diary memorable is its departures into the more quotidian: gossip-filled trips to the sauna, Ukraine’s moral-boosting victory in the Eurovision Song Contest, ruminations on the status of Ukrainian literature amid paper shortages, and ploys to protect animals in the country’s shuttered zoos.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Megan Gibson, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Probably the first important literary work to emerge from a conflict that appears likely to alter the course of world history, \u003cem\u003eDiary of an Invasion\u003c\/em\u003e is a thoughtful and human memoir by one of Ukraine’s most prominent living authors.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Simon Caterson, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If anything, \u003cem\u003eDiary of an Invasion\u003c\/em\u003e is a testament to the supreme weirdness of its time. 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The speaker isn’t afraid to call themselves out while also bending time, displaying the terror of being Black\/queer\/trans in Texas, and more — all while using humor and craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does freedom look like? What can we learn from nature and our past? How do you reintroduce yourself in a world that refuses queerness? How can we use poetry as a tool in the toolbox that helps build freedom? This collection explores those questions, and manifests a world where Black, queer, and trans people get to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Information\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKB Brookins\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. Their chapbook \u003cem\u003eHow To Identify Yourself with a Wound\u003c\/em\u003e (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the Saguaro Poetry Prize. 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In angry, piercing poems, full of bold imagery and chilling line breaks, they explore American politics, queer masculinity, and the strangeness and magic of transition. This inventive collection is an astonishing achievement; Brookins’s poems range from long lyrical verses to gutting erasure poems, and everyone is breathtaking.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Laura Sackton, \u003cem\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"KB's \u003cem\u003eFreedom House\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of optimism and transformation, though not easily...KB is a poet who is sharply attuned to the racial, environmental, social, and economic manifestations of systemic injustice, and politics they critique in themselves just as sharply...[S]uch realizations are triumphs put alongside the joy found throughout \u003cem\u003eFreedom House\u003c\/em\u003e. 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In the early 1950s, he published two collections that signaled a new direction for Macedonian poetry as a whole, announcing the arrival of new form “intimate lyricism”. Over the next 25 years, Šopov's work deepened further, acquiring a philosophical cosmic dimension and at times venturing into surrealism. \u003cem\u003eThe Long Coming of the Fire\u003c\/em\u003e shares the work of a consummate craftsman little-known in the Anglophone world, achieving a “penetrating, resonant, and melodic” poetic language with “a lively and pregnant imagery that binds together the experience of the author and reader” (Graham W. Reid).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eInformation\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAco Šopov\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1923 in the town of Štip, in what is today North Macedonia. His first book was published by the underground press in 1944, when he was fighting in the anti-Fascist resistance. By the early 1950s, he was a major Macedonian poet, notable for his deep personal lyricism. His volumes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot-Being\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNebidnina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1963) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eReader of the Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGledač na pepelta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1970) are genuine masterworks, establishing his reputation as one of the founders of modern Macedonian poetry. Here Šopov’s poetry expands into philosophical and existential questions, even as it remains firmly rooted in an exploration of the self. The book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Black Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePesna na crnata žena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1976) emerged from Šopov’s years as the Yugoslav ambassador to Senegal (from 1971 to 1975), a period when he also produced an award-winning translation of poems by the poet and Senegalese president Léopold Sédar Senghor. 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