{"title":"Translations","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sonic-peace","title":"Sonic Peace","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Kiriu Minashita\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Spencer Thurlow and Eric Hyett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSonic Peace is a work of extreme genius and unassailable critique, fused with beauty and lightheartedness: a love story set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 5, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781944700409\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Even while boasting of its rapid strength and speed,” Kiriu Minashita says in the afterword to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSonic Peace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, “the world is being ecstatically eroded by the violent rewriting of meaning.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSonic Peace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a work of extreme genius and unassailable critique, fused with beauty and lightheartedness: a love story set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic Tokyo. 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Set in a bizarro, all-too-real imaginarium of American pop culture, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoney, I Killed the Cats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e introduces us to two independent young women struggling to live the lives that television and glossy magazines have promised them. In a collision of street slang and mass-media sloganeering, Masłowska’s electrifying prose drives a propulsive story about spiritual longing in a dispirited world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMasłowska’s novel examines the ways we attempt to exist and find meaning in lives defined by what we buy. In this warped world saturated by advertising and materialism, where everything can be bought, from personality and physical traits to religion and self-fulfillment, Joanne and Farah, two very different women form a friendship both bonded in and ultimately destroyed by the manipulations of consumer culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eJoanne has everything the commercials say you should want—confidence, a carefree life, happiness to excess. Farah is a self-loathing, envious, germophobic malcontent. Through a shared metaphysical dream experience that spills over into their increasingly troubled day-to-day lives, these best friends find themselves consumed by their equal-and-opposite obsessions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWidely regarded as Polish literary sensation Masłowska’s best novel yet, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoney, I Killed the Cats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a powerfully emotional, hilariously grotesque satire of Western consumer culture and the trends that go along with it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Masłowska here describes a terrifying funhouse abounding with toxic friendships, ominous takes on consumerism, and grotesque moments of violence and general discomfort…The tone is broadly satirical throughout, but it’s the variety with fangs — sometimes literally.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tobias Carroll, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMystery Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Dorota Masłowska is a mistress of the startling metaphor and her heroine is certainly not the stuff of chick lit.  She appears in dreams (her own and those of her friends and neighbours) pyjama bottoms dripping with blood – yes honey, she has killed the cats. And she hardly need a hero to come and save her from drowning, does she? If this gloriously strange book sounds like your sort of thing, give Benjamin Paloff’s translation a go…” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kate Sotejeff-Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Dorota Masłowska’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoney, I Killed the Cats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e doesn’t read like a novel, but rather a sequence of tabs on an internet browser, each one a minor digression into a deeper chaos. Written in 2012 by one of Poland’s leading young authors, Benjamin Paloff’s lively translation is distinctly 2019, as if constructed solely from a digital-era dictionary.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Matt Janney, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Calvert Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Paloff is able to preserve Maslowska’s energy and surprising wordplay in this translation, and the prose brings life to the setting in a way that energizes the story…” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ambrose Mary Gallagher, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Masłowska’s latest is a sucrose-loaded simulacrum for the American monoculture, recklessly scrambling barbed sarcasm with irreverent sight gags to stupendous effect. A knives-out dissection of aesthetic vulgarity that refuses to be calmed, corralled, or otherwise contained. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoney, I Killed the Cats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is delightfully demented fun.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Justin Walls, Powell’s Books at Cedar Hill Crossing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A wild, technicolor send up of culture and consumerism.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Caitlin Luce Baker, Island Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A grossly all-too-accurate satire of American consumer culture and those frantically swiping their plastic (in hopes of some kind of meaning) inside of it. Hilarious and biting. A scream.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Traci Thiebaud, Brazos Bookstore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Slim and ferocious, Masłowska’s novel is a wild trip from beginning to end.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“So absurdly extended—and so deranged in its detail—that it’s genuinely funny.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e— \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“She is the hope of Polish literature.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Paloff deserves to be commended. His translation is as transparent as possible, literal without being wooden, lively yet not artificially so. Maslowska’s linguistic vigor communicates itself to English-language readers so readily that we are caught up in the quick current of her prose before we even know what the book is about.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Magdalena Kay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorota Masłowska\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a Polish writer, playwright, and journalist. She is the recipient of the prestigious Polityka Prize for her debut novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e(Snow White and Russian Red, Grove Atlantic), published when she was just 19 years old. The book garnered massive critical acclaim in Poland, has been translated into dozens of languages, and was made into a movie directed by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eXawery Żuławski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Since then, she has written several novels and plays and has become a celebrated literary figure in Poland. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHoney, I Killed the Cats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, her second novel to be published in English, has been adapted for stage and portions were made into a short film directed by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e Marcin Nowak\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. She currently resides in Warsaw.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Paloff \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ereceived his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 2007. 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In language that is as delicate as it is fierce, Tikkanen explores the depths of fear and violence that often accompany addiction and the struggle to reconcile that pain with the deep love and strength necessary to hold a family together through it all. As much a story of resilience as it is suffering, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Love Story of the Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a bittersweet account of the complexities of addiction, the power of creativity, and the redemption of love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMärta Tikkanen\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1935) is a Finnish-Swedish journalist, writer, and teacher. 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Poetry that bites, poetry that stings, poetry that takes you to the darkest places in order to beat you down, and poetry that picks you back up again.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Zachary Jensen, \u003cem\u003eAngel City Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43823697592569,"sku":"9781944700089","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/Smoothtalkingdog_1.jpg?v=1597073090"},{"product_id":"stormwarning","title":"Stormwarning","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic by K.B. 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Lyn Coffin’s translations from the Persian allow Emadi’s poems to inhabit the English language as their own, as the poet recasts his earliest memories and deepest loves over the forges of being “someone who goes to bed in one city and wakes up in another city.” Alternating between acceptance and despair, tenderness and toughness, he writes, “I wanted to be a physicist,” but “Your kisses made me a poet.” Mohsen Emadi is a powerful witness to life in the present times, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStanding on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e introduces a major world poet to an English-language readership for the first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mohsen Emadi is one of the brightest stars of twenty-first century Persian poetry. 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This collection, lyrical and imagistic, where between death and silence is remembrance, where shadow after shadow resides, ‘whispers: guess who it is…’ And the poet leaves us wondering because it is wonder that takes us closer to love’s many versions, to an intimacy weaved in nation and exile. The poems in this unforgettable collection ground us, and give us flight.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Nathalie Handal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To put it simply, Lyn Coffin’s words are beautiful and brimming with potency, because Mohsen Emadi’s words are beautiful and brimming with potency.” \u003cstrong\u003e—John Venegas, \u003cem\u003eAngel City Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e9\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeath is when the heart does not beat and the clock beats.\u003cbr\u003eLove is when the heart beats and the clock does not beat.\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps this simple comparison explains\u003cbr\u003ewhy you glanced at your watch.\u003cbr\u003eYou knew that waiting is the dense endurance of eternity\u003cbr\u003eand love, the miracle of mortals,\u003cbr\u003emakes eternity ashamed,\u003cbr\u003ebut death does not wait for anybody.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe long summer afternoon\u003cbr\u003ewas going down on coffins and clock towers\u003cbr\u003ethe ruins knew\u003cbr\u003eand you did not know\u003cbr\u003ethat war makes waiting invalid\u003cbr\u003eand saving life\u003cbr\u003ethe whole Truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWas she dead?\u003cbr\u003eHad she fled without you?\u003cbr\u003eOr you were not in love anymore?\u003cbr\u003eThe dead were not answering.\u003cbr\u003eThe living were escaping\u003cbr\u003eand love from then on\u003cbr\u003ebeat within\u003cbr\u003ethe pulsing of a clock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBorn in Iran, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMohsen Emadi \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis the award-winning author of four collections of poetry published in Iran and Spain. 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When night falls they become “the boys”: the anonymous observers. \/… \/…the borders of existence are – and must be permitted to be – so much larger than the volume restricted by the skin.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eExpressen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m super excited about it… This is going to be one of those power-packed little books.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eInk and Paper Blog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGirls Lost \u003c\/em\u003eis captivating as its three leads explore the universal challenges of teenage angst, conflicts between perception and reality, and the power of another’s gaze to free or entrap you.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eForeword Review, \u003c\/em\u003eKristen Rabe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful novel about gender, sexuality and power relations that will have you turn page after page without even realizing it. 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Multitudes of snowflakes, tiny as sparks, keep flying into the beam and swirling around like burning gunpowder. The factory workers hurry home in this freezing cold, holding their breath, to ring in the New Year. The snow doesn’t just crackle under their feet, it actually squeals. In this kind of cold, breathing is impossible: you might as well try to breathe black pepper. It feels like the snow would catch fire if you held a match to it. And no looking up, either, not a chance, although if you do go ahead and try to lift your frost-burned face you’ll see a red banner over the entrance, and white letters, and above them the spotlight’s beam, drilling through the murky, sleepy sky over the Narva Outpost all the way into outer space, although its target really isn’t outer space at all, but the clock on the Central Tower, that’s what! 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A 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. 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Nothing escapes her intuitive vigilance…With her, details are isolated and become powerful revealers of truth. 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Its unrelenting focus on a subject we’d often prefer not to think about makes it a sort of memento mori. Through the scale and disparate passings presented, Mréjen reminds us that while for all of us the moment will come when we pass, death can be a unifying moment rather than just an alienating one. That those who succeed us will do whatever they can and push on. That wherever death might find us, there is also life.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKenyon Review, \u003c\/em\u003eIan J. Battaglia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA man is at home one afternoon. He attempts to carry out a number of actions in a particular order, focusing on their progress. His gaze is drawn to the window overlooking the street, and he takes in the people coming and going, their shoulders pulled down by various loads: bags of all sizes, overcoats, trenches. Legs carry these bodies composed and comprised of organs, some of which function better than others; legs continuously cross paths, legs march on; heads nod, ruminating over a thousand disparate things, and hair swings forward and back. Anonymous heads of hair shine in the pale, cold light of the winter sun, curling, lifting in cowlicks, fading, and becoming streaked with white strands— just a few at first, then many, if only they’re given the time and the chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe man in the apartment decides he is old enough. He takes the disco ball down from its beam and in its place ties a rope, which he likely found in the hardware section of the bric–a–brac shop not far from his building. He loops it around his neck and, standing on the stepladder, now observes the room from high up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething startles the downstairs neighbors—a noise like metal hitting a concrete floor— and they freeze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn one December 31st, this man’s birthday, a family is getting ready for a New Year’s Eve party. The divorced father and his three children are invited to the house of a friend of their stepmother’s. They won’t know anyone there and fear they’ll be terribly bored. In a lavish apartment resembling the set of a TV movie, a young, newly–hired maid will have tried to add a festive touch to the decor by placing tiny baskets of artificial flowers on openwork tablecloths, tablecloths that will give the hosts occasion to meticulously recount their bargaining sessions at markets in poor countries. The absurdly low price that had been obtained through persistence will be brandished like a victory. Yet, considering the ugliness of the spoils, it will seem still too much to the eldest child, a nervous, aloof teenager who feels uneasy in this company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore heading out to the party, the family must change into nicer clothes. The outfits chosen by the youngest two aren’t chic enough: they didn’t bring with them any perfectly ironed new shirts, nor flannel trousers or little English blazers. They do not, for that matter, own such clothing, since their father hates spending Saturdays at department stores and doesn’t know of any other, more fashionable places to shop. Every now and again, he takes them to an obscure boutique in the wholesale district, where a man who smells of eau de toilette and claims to have known them since they were babies makes them try on parkas too poorly cut to look like the ones in the window display, and cheaply made shoes imitating the latest styles. They don’t dare object, and the fitting is always an ordeal. They leave with pleated pants made of itchy fabric that zip so tightly they can hardly breathe, all rolled up into plastic bags whose rigid snap–seals never close completely and whose sharp–edged handles leave red and white marks on their palms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so it is decided that they will stop by their mother’s, who is out of town for the weekend with her lover. This is how the father refers to this man whom he doesn’t know, \u003ci\u003elover\u003c\/i\u003e, though the divorce was finalized years ago and he, too, is involved with someone new. The father has a friend; the mother sees her lover. The family drives down deserted alleys lit by gas lamps, through a wealthy neighborhood where the broad avenues are lined with hundred–year–old chestnut trees, to a duller suburb full of one–way streets. They pull up to a house and the children are asked to hurry, or so they gather from their father’s exaggerated sigh. The brother begins to insert his key into the star–shaped keyhole and senses, from the absence of pressure, that the door isn’t locked. Someone has been here before them. There’s a light on in the kitchen; the warm halo of recently installed sconces has been illuminating the white wall for several hours. On the tiled floor, they see the pieces of a broken plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey call out, wait for a response, and climb the first flight of stairs; they understand, of course, that none of this is normal. In the room at the end of the hallway, a presence awaits them: a woman who looks exactly like their mother, in a state resembling sleep, lies in a nightgown under the covers. They recognize the fake fur bedspread, the two antique nightstands perched on slender, graceful feet, the mysterious marquetry drawers inside which they’ve always hoped to find a surprise and instead only come upon little ivory or burlwood boxes containing their yellowed baby teeth split neatly in halves, or an old sewing kit—things already familiar to them. On the pillow, the waxy face appears calm, the half–closed eyes pointed toward a spot on the ceiling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35464856273059,"sku":"9781944700904","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35464856305827,"sku":"9781646050215","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/043-Black_Forest.jpg?v=1596660709"},{"product_id":"sphinx","title":"Sphinx","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/deepvellum.org\/authors\/anne-f-garreta\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/deepvellum.org\/authors\/anne-f-garreta\/\"\u003e \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne Garréta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated from the French by Emma Ramadan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecipient of the French Embassy's Hemingway Grant for Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eApril 21, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 9781941920091\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeBook:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 9781941920084\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, \"I,\" and their lover, A***, written without using any gender markers to refer to the main characters, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a remarkable linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that has never been accomplished before or since in the strictly-gendered French language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a landmark text in the feminist, LGBT, and experimental literary canons appearing in English for the first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNominated for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Staff Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's Top 50 Independent Books of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEntropy Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's Best Fiction Books of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBookriot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's 100 Must-Read Books Translated from French\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDallas Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's \"13 Books to Read This Summer\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeatured in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOff The Shelf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's \"12 Innovative Books to Get You Out of Your Reading Rut\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIncluded in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's \"23 Books in Translation by Women Writers\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux editor Jackson Howard's Favorite Books of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Sphinx challenges automatisms, identification mechanisms, and the urgent need for gender categorization. The absence of linguistic gender acts as a mirror reflecting back the reader’s projections.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Gaëlle Cogan, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"[Garreta's] been called influential and groundbreaking, and with this, her first translation into English, it is easy to see why. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is an important contribution to queer literature—fascinating, intelligent, and very welcome.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"A unique novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e succeeds in telling a love story without names or genders, allowing the reader to interpret the novel however they wish. Set in Paris and calling to mind the work of James Baldwin, this both feminist and LGBT book is deeply evocative in its word usage as it celebrates love without the constraints of gender.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Garréta’s removal of gendered grammar is less an indictment of gender—or sign-bearing bodies—and more of a narrative challenge, a queering of language. This is also to say \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is less of a queer romance novel than it is a poetic queering of love itself.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Meghan Lamb, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Collagist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“The set-up is such a classic, relatable tale of falling in — and out — of love that one wonders why gender has always been such a huge factor in how we discuss relationships, in fiction and otherwise. . . . So, the author, and the translator, created their own language, championing love and desire over power and difference.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Maddie Crum, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e highlights the already limiting nature of language when it comes to matters of gender, and of love.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Stephanie Hayes, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“The strength of [\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e] lies in its philosophical eloquence . . . Take away gender and race from the book, and what’s left? Love, viewed as a nihilistic transcendence . . . considerably more than a language game.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Adam Mars-Jones, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is an almost effortlessly readable, atmospheric love story, like a Marguerite Duras novel starring a pair of genderless paramours who haunt the after-hours clubs and cabarets of Paris. The conceit is so simple and so potent that it’s impossible to get too far without pondering big questions about the role gender plays in the way we think about love in literature — and in life.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Judy Berman, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“In this sense, just as the novel is genderless, it is also genderfull . . . Garréta finds endless shades of in between and out of bounds, her characters taking shapes no other text before—or since—has imagined.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Lauren Elkin, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Centering her tale on the love and lust of a young couple in the Parisian underworld allows Garréta to train our eyes on the physical beauty of youth, the sensuality of anonymous bodies, and our preconceptions regarding both. The bodies of je and A***, left bare of gender markers, create the need for a new, more vigilant kind of reading that involves a constant undoing of assumptions. They cry: Read yourselves, not just us.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jane Yong Kim, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“However, the fragments that do surface from this unconscious reservoir are vividly and eloquently incarnated. This is particularly true of the prose around lights, music, and bodies—the primary elements that compose nightclubs. They are rendered in rapturous tones . . . I could go on—exquisite fragments like these are packaged in nearly every page.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—John Taylor, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"The body may be divine, but it can only be seen in such close focus that individual limbs can hardly be distinguished: we are left with flesh and bone, plus a few spinning hormones.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Joanna Walsh, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe National\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Garréta’s stylistic experiment has been carried out at once boldly and discreetly — it is difficult not to be lured into the story . . . [Emma Ramadan] has skillfully brought this thought-provoking novel to the English-reading world, where it has long been overdue.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—John Taylor, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Arts Fuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Untethered from the genre you’ve unconsciously assigned it, the story expands. Love, like the universe has a way of doing that. And yet you sense a helplessness in the narrator to try, like you were, to pin something down.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Leah Dieterich, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Art Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"The biggest surprise is Anne Garréta, whose novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, first published in 1986, explores DJ culture, gender and sexual politics in Parisian nightclubs. The two main characters are the narrator and their lover A***...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (available in Emma Ramadan’s 2015 English translation) is ahead of its time, a radical bridge between Kathy Acker, the “chemical generation” authors of the 90s, and emerging innovators such as this year’s Goldsmiths prize-nominated Isabel Waidner.\"  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Tony White, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI never alluded to what I had so indistinctly perceived in my sleep, and neither did A***. There were always inexplicable silences between us, a sort of prudishness or reserve that kept us from broaching certain intimate subjects. We kept the evidence hidden away, even avoiding the use of expressions that seemed improper, excessive, or bizarre. A*** would never show any immoderate affection, and I was constantly forcing myself not to criticize the escapades I witnessed. Once, only once, I was weak enough to reveal my jealousy, which had been gnawing away at me. In the same vein, A*** only once slipped in showing tenderness toward me, using words and gestures that we had never before allowed ourselves to use.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis single jealous episode took place in the dressing room of the Eden where, one night, I came upon A*** in the company of a man I had seen fairly often in the wings the previous week, whom I suspected to be A***’s latest lover. Normally I pretended not to give a damn about the goings-on of A***’s libido; the number and nature of A***’s escapades were none of my business. What right did I have to be jealous, since there was nothing between us other than platonic affection? But that night I could not bear to see this lugubrious cretin, in the seat that I habitually occupied, engaged with A*** in the sort of conversation I had thought was reserved for me alone. This substitution outraged me: the idea that in my absence someone could take my place, could be the object of identical attentions. I was willing to admit that I was not everything for A***, but I refused to accept that what I was, achieved through a hard-fought struggle, could be taken over by someone else, and apparently by anyone at all. The sole merit of the lover in question was his idiocy: his inane conversation was doubtless a nice break from the thornier discussions A*** and I typically had. A*** thought he had a beautiful face, entrancing eyes, and good fashion sense. I was shocked by A***’s poor taste, by the appreciation of such an individual: an Adonis from a centerfold with a stupidly handsome face.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne F. Garréta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is the first member of the Oulipo to be born after the founding of the collective. A normalien (graduate of France’s prestigious École normale supérieure) and lecturer at the University of Rennes II since 1995, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne F. Garréta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e was co-opted into the Oulipo in April 2000. She also teaches at Duke University as a Research Professor of Literature and Romance Studies. Her first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, hailed by critics, tells a love story between two people without giving any indication of grammatical gender for the narrator or the narrator’s love interest, A***. She won France’s prestigious Prix Médicis in 2002, awarded each year to an author whose “fame does not yet match their talent” (she is the second Oulipian to win the award–Georges Perec won in 1978), for her book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNot One Day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmma Ramadan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a literary translator of poetry and prose from France, the Middle East, and North Africa. She is the recipient of a Fulbright, an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN\/Heim grant, and the 2018 Albertine Prize. Her translations for Deep Vellum include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne Garréta’s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNot One Day\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Fouad Laroui's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrice Matthieussent's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRevenge of the Translator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. She is based in Providence, RI, where she co-owns Riffraff bookstore and bar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35509165883555,"sku":"9781941920091","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35509165916323,"sku":"9781941920084","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/004-Sphinx.jpg?v=1597073210"},{"product_id":"baho-a-novel","title":"Baho!","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Roland Rugero\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the French by Christopher Schaefer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eYoung Burundian novelist Roland Rugero's second novel \u003cem\u003eBaho!\u003c\/em\u003e, the first Burundian novel to ever be translated into English, explores the concepts of miscommunication and justice against the backdrop of war-torn Burundi's beautiful green hillsides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eApril 12, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419620\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Nyamuragi, an adolescent mute, attempts to ask a young woman in rural Burundi for directions to an appropriate place to relieve himself, his gestures are mistaken as premeditation for rape. To the young woman’s community, his fleeing confirms his guilt, setting off a chain reaction of pursuit, mob justice, and Nyamuragi’s attempts at explanation. Young Burundian novelist Roland Rugero’s second novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaho!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the first Burundian novel to ever be translated into English, explores the concepts of miscommunication and justice against the backdrop of war-torn Burundi’s beautiful green hillsides.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBorn in 1986 in Burundi, \u003cstrong\u003eRoland Rugero\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in a family where reading was a favorite pastime. He has worked as a journalist in Burundi since 2008. His novels include \u003cem\u003eLes Oniriques\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBaho!\u003c\/em\u003e, the first Burundian novel to be translated into English. Rugero has held residencies at La Rochelle and at Iowa's prestigious International Writing Program. In addition to his work as a writer, in 2011 he wrote and directed \u003cem\u003eLes pieds et les mains\u003c\/em\u003e, the second-ever feature-length film from Burundi. Rugero is active in promoting Burundi's literary culture, co-founding the Samandari Workshop and helping found the Michel Kayoza and Andika Prizes. He lives in Bujumbura, Burundi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Schaefer\u003c\/strong\u003e is a translator from the Spanish and French living in Paris. He has won the Ezra Pound Award for Best Translation from the University of Pennsylvania for his translations of the Cuban poet Javier Marimón. In 2012 he participated in the English PEN Translation Slam at the Poetry Parnassus in London. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“The book is something of a landmark and another welcome step in the much-needed drive to bring more Francophone African literature into the world’s most-published language.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Ann Morgan, \u003cem\u003eA Year Of Reading The World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I highly recommend this novel, for the strength of its story, for the depth of its characters and commentary, and for the fact that you probably have read nothing it like it before.” \u003cstrong\u003e—John Venegas, \u003cem\u003eAngel City Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In measured sentences of understated enigma, steeped in poetry and African wisdom, Baho! leads us through the twists and turns of a country reinventing itself.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Fiston Mwanza Mujila, author of \u003cem\u003eTram 83\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The leading writer of Burundi’s younger generation.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Martin Ntirandekura\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43823604629753,"sku":"9781939419620","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/bahochristopher.jpg?v=1596660432"},{"product_id":"against-the-current","title":"Against the Current","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Tedi López Mills\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Wendy Burk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/em\u003e expose a mind moving fast as water. Tedi López Mills renders a river as a cool but contaminated space, propelling its detritus through a hybrid rural\/urban zone that is inhabited by allegory and rife with collision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/strong\u003e: May 10, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419781\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexpose a mind moving fast as water. Tedi López Mills renders a river as a cool but contaminated space, propelling its detritus through a hybrid rural\/urban zone that is inhabited by allegory and rife with collision. As the poems swim upstream, they accrue the impurities and complicities of memory, embodied in the central figure of the brother who is also the other. Wendy Burk reproduces the baroque, occasionally frenetic rhythms of the abecedarian original with lucidity, in these poems that underscore that Mexico is defined by physical and philosophical contrast.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-tabs wc-tabs-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-Tabs-panel woocommerce-Tabs-panel--reviews panel entry-content wc-tab\" id=\"tab-reviews\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab-title-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tedi López Mills is the most interesting Mexican poet working today.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Mario Bellatin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tedi López Mills ingeniously overlays ordinary subject-verb-object sentences with familiar narrative structural elements—“And so,” “The first time,” “Little by little…” to limn a contemporary suburban domestic relationship. But the familiar patterns of romantic gifts, songs, winks, shared dinners, and lists of things to do are horribly irrupted by paranoia, sadomasochistic games, the voices of a psyche named Anonymous, and formulas for controlling the body and its words and deeds. Any erotic dimension is upended; cleavage is perceived as a wound. As the constraints of grammatical regularity and understatement are repeatedly broken and re-established, the poem grows more terrifying…Tedi López Mills expands family drama into critical conceptual questions as she drives home what Rimbaud meant when he wrote ‘Domesticity leads too far.'” \u003cstrong\u003e—Forrest Gander\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eDeath on Rua Augusta\u003c\/em\u003e Tedi López Mills eviscerates and devours a decaying emotional interior. This meticulously crafted diary, beautifully rendered into English by David Shook, of the unassuming and deeply possessed Gordon who has been shattered by obsessive love, is filled with sensual music and erotic perversion. Black and white magic has been exquisitely draped over his plastic California Eden. This is a gorgeous and fiendish gem of a book.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Donald Breckenridge\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTedi López Mills\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of Mexico's foremost poets writing today. Born in Mexico City in 1959, she studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and literature at the Sorbonne. She is the author of ten books of poetry and two essay collections, several of which have received national literary prizes, including the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, \"Mexico's Pulitzer Prize,\" for her verse novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuerte en la rúa Augusta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2009). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLópez Mills\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e sets the pace for her contemporaries with work that is linguistically inventive and philosophically rigorous. She invokes the classics, the troubadours, and the pastoral tradition with an underlying skepticism about language, landscape, and causality that keeps her work current, engaging the eye while troubling the \"I.\" She lives in Mexico City, Mexico.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Burk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e was the recipient of a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship to translate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. She is the author of two chapbooks, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Deer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Place Names The Place Named\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and the translator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eTedi López Mills’s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhile Light Is Built\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTin House, Colorado Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and other journals. 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His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery—protecting dams, for example, from looters. His wife Fariba can no longer stand it, and has left him to rejoin her family in Isfahan. She is anxious for him to choose a life with her, or to let her go and persist with things as they are. But Kamran’s issues run deeper than anybody imagines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 7, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419828\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEngineer Kamran Khosravi wants to die in a car accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr he at least wants it to look that way. His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery — protecting dams, for example, from looters. His wife Fariba can no longer stand it, and has left him to rejoin her family in Isfahan. She is anxious for him to choose a life with her, or to let her go and persist with things as they are. But Kamran’s issues run deeper than anybody imagines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewon the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award for the best novel of the year and was named one of the ten best novels of the decade by the Press Critics Award in Iran. However, in 2007 Yaghoub Yadali was sentenced to one year in prison for having depicted an adulterous affair in the novel.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand his short story collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSketches in the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehave been banned from publication and reprint in Iran. This book is the first for Phoneme Media’s City of Asylum Imprint, which showcases books by current and former writers‐in‐residence at the Pittsburgh‐based nonprofit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYaghoub Yadali\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a fiction writer from Iran, has directed for television and worked for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoshd Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as the editor of the film section. In addition to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRituals of Restlessness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2004) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSketches in the Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1997), he is the author of the short story collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eProbability of Merriment and Mooning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2001). His short stories, articles, and essays are published in Iran, Turkey, and the US. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa, Harvard University, and City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, PA.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eSara Khalili\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. 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She lives in New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2004 Golshiri Foundation Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed \"One of the Top Ten Best Novels of the Decade\" by the Press Critics Award in Iran\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As Kamran descends further into a black hole, his nihilistic tendencies come to the fore, at times I was reminded of Dostoyevsky…A readable, enjoyable and enlightening debut in the City of Asylum series and a very worthwhile project to support, one I hope continues for many years to come.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tony Messenger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s a fascinating, and surprisingly suspenseful read about the struggle to find meaning in a life that seems largely out of your control.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Laura Farmer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe picked up the telephone to call Fariba, who was sulking and had gone to her father’s house in Isfahan. He hesitated. He could not bring himself to dial the number. What did he have to say to her? She had already decided not to go back to that secluded hinterland where, according to her, she had wasted three years of her youth, lonely and isolated. She would not return, even at the price of a divorce and losing the man she still loved. He had only two options: either give in to Fariba’s wishes and request a transfer to Isfahan, where he would have to live under her parents’ noses, or leave her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut was his problem the question of where they should live? Or whether they should separate or not? For a long time now, he had stopped caring about what would happen. Whether Fariba would stay or go, whether they would live in a small town or someplace else. He knew that, with or without her, whether they lived in a remote town or in Isfahan or Paris or New York—which Fariba always talked about with envy—none of it would make any difference. What the hell was wrong with him? What was he after? All he knew was that he had to carry out the cold-blooded decision he had made, even at the cost of a human life. He frightened himself. How had he come to this?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was not in the mood for breakfast. He took a cigarette from the pack that was on the coffee table, lit it, and sank back in the sofa. All he wanted was to just lie there, put his feet up on the table, balance the ashtray on his stomach, puff on his cigarette, and not think about the decision he had made. It was as if there were another Kamran inside him, one who did not want to be so heartless. If only he could just stay there forever, sprawled out and doing nothing. He heard his cell phone ring. He would not have answered it had the number on the screen not been that of the real estate agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Good morning, sir. I’m calling because I have found a buyer. You said you’re in a hurry, and I wanted to let you know as soon as possible so that we can arrange to show him the house.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Is it for cash?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Of course, sir, all cash. And it’s up to you how much you’re willing to lower the price. As I explained yesterday, cash customers are hard to come by, and I can’t coax and sweet-talk him until he sees the place. Of course, you understand, sir.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“All right, I should be home this evening around six or seven. If I’m not here, call me and I’ll hurry back. The sooner we wrap this up, the better.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Most certainly, sir. I’m at your service. And don’t worry. Even if this one doesn’t work out, I will do whatever it takes to turn the house into cash in a matter of days.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe hung up and took a deep breath. 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Leave me alone, it’s all mine.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFariba’s breezy laughter and that quiet spring morning moved his hand and laid it over hers. He clasped her hand with the intention of lifting it off his shoulder, but the pressure of her body and the scent of Nivea from her underarms mingled with the smell of the onion he had eaten at dinner. He stopped resisting and let her play with the sparse hair on his chest, stroke the skin under his earlobe with her lips and the tip of her nose, and purr, “Do you like it?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut that time, she neither ran her finger playfully through his hair, nor did she twiddle with the hair on his chest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe said, “Kamran.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhenever she called him Kamran instead of Kami, he knew there was trouble ahead. 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Veteran Spanish translator Bunstead… takes José’s clean, punchy lines and makes them sing—and stick with you.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—John Maher, \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A set of short stories in which the peculiarity and the fantasy of Zapotec popular legends are brought to life by the imaginative and powerful pen of a great author in the making—what is perhaps a true breath of fresh and original air that does our national literature much good.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Mónica Maristain\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These stories are situated within an imaginary (of Pergentino\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJosé making) that is consistent from one story to the next…but it is an image that is not reflected in the rest of Mexican literature. This collection is poised to become a new and encouraging contribution.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Altantl Molina, \u003cem\u003eMarvin Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan height=\"15\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"These stories are teeming with life and crawling with movement. 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Featuring three different autobiographies, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Large Glass\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e challenges the absurd and hubristic project of the autobiography itself — how can any writer account for himself in a way that is dignified yet honest? Intimate yet public? Like the Duchamp sculpture from which it takes its name, Mario Bellatin’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Large Glass\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e deconstructs the very form it embraces, revealing the artifice of the autobiographical genre, while cleverly celebrating the importance of the stories we tell about ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" color=\"#000000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMario Bellatin (born in Mexico, 1960) has already gained a status as one of the greatest living Mexican writers. Bellatin, who has been called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“controversial,” “a cult writer,” and an “eccentric public figure,”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" color=\"#000000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the author of dozens of intricate, compelling, and absolutely unique novels that have won numerous international literary awards, including the José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, Premio Nacional de Literatura Mazatlán, Barbara Gittings Literature Award, Antonin Artaud Award, and the José María Arguedas Prize. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"times new roman, serif\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#000000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBellatin's works have been translated into 21 languages. Previous books published in English include\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003eBeauty Salon, The Large Glass, Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction, The Transparent Bird's Gaze, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Jacob the Mutant\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Mexico City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDavid Shook's many translations include work by Mario Bellatin, Tedi López Mills, and Víctor Terán. Their collection of poetry, Our Obsidian Tongues, was long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. They live in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoneme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42778226295033,"sku":"9781939419491","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/The_Large_Glass.jpg?v=1597087723"},{"product_id":"rilke-shake","title":"Rilke Shake","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deepvellum.org\/authors\/angelica-freitas\/\"\u003eAngélica Freitas\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eTranslated by Hilary Kaplan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWinner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2016 National Translation Award\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2016 PEN Poetry Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWith frenetic humor and linguistic innovation, Angélica Freitas constructs a temple of delight to celebrate her own literary canon. In this whirlwind debut collection, first published in Portuguese in 2007, Gertrude Stein passes gas in her bathtub, a sushi chef cries tears of Suntory Whisky, and Ezra Pound is kept “insane in a cage in pisa.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781939419545\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRilke Shake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s title, a pun on milkshake, means in Portuguese just what it does in English. With frenetic humor and linguistic innovation, Angélica Freitas constructs a temple of delight to celebrate her own literary canon. In this whirlwind debut collection, first published in Portuguese in 2007, Gertrude Stein passes gas in her bathtub, a sushi chef cries tears of Suntory Whisky, and Ezra Pound is kept “insane in a cage in pisa.” Hilary Kaplan’s translation is as contemporary and lyrical as the Portuguese-language original, a considerable feat considering the collection’s breakneck pace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2016 National Translation Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2016 PEN Poetry Translation Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this brilliant translation by Hilary Kaplan, Angélica Freitas shakes and blends the influences of her Brazilian forbears with international figures like Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and Mallarmé. Her poetry possesses an essential lightness that Italo Calvino believed to be the basis of good writing, along with quickness, exactitude, and visibility. This lightness brings momentum, weight, and wit. In Freitas’ “Cassino Beach,” for instance: “you prefer the raw \/ to the refined: \/ mouth oyster tongue \/ lake moon place \/ landscape with pine trees \/ in the background. you always \/ preferred the raw \/ to the reel, insomnia to \/ the barber of Seville…” Kaplan presents the dance and humor of Freitas’ Portuguese with a similar exactitude. No fabled saudade here, but the sound of an ocarina underwater in the Orinoco.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Paul Hoover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What a lovely collection of poems. They mix topics including arcade basketball, mustaches and Gertrude Stein into unexpected, funny and poignant delights.” \u003cstrong\u003e—A.J. Jacobs, New York Times-bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eDrop Dead Healthy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Wry, painfully funny and moving. Kaplan’s translation captures the formal invention and deadpan beauty of the original perfectly.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Sasha Dugdale, editor of \u003cem\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a clever and profound collection, written with a light hand. It is translated as cleverly and as lightly.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Natasha Dennerstein, \u003cem\u003eFourteen Hills\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eRilke Shake\u003c\/em\u003e, the Brazilian poet, Angélica Freitas, whips up a powerful tonic for even the most stubborn case of anxiety of influence: one cup Rilke, a pinch Gertrude Stein (farting in the tub), two tablespoons Poundian cadences, a dash of Marianne Moore, and toasted Blake, with five hundred hollygolightlies thrown in for good measure, the whole lot shaken not stirred.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Tess Lewis, Three Percent at University of Rochester\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngélica Freitas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(b. 1973) is the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRilke shake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Cosac Naify, 2007) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eUm útero é do tamanho de um punho\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Cosac Naify, 2012). Her graphic novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuadalupe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2012), published by Companhia das Letras, was illustrated by Odyr Bernardi. Freitas’s poems have been translated and published in German, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, and English. She was awarded a Programa Petrobras Cultural writing fellowship in 2009. Freitas co-edits the poetry journal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eModo de Usar \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand lives in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e‘s translations of Brazilian poetry and fiction have been featured in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePEN America\u003c\/i\u003e, and on BBC Radio 4. Her writing on Brazilian poetry and poetics appears in eLyra, Jacket2, Rascunho, and the collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeslocamentos Críticos\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. She received a 2011 PEN Translation Fund grant for her translation of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRilke Shake\u003c\/i\u003e. 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In an attempt to understand what a “true Texan should know,” the author reflects on his outsider experiences in this most unique of places, learning to two-step, musing on cowboy hats and cowboy churches, blending his observations with a meditative rumination on the history of Texas and the events that shaped the state, from the first settlers to Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. All the while, the author is asking what a novel is and must be, while accompanied by a fictional cast of seven samurai who the author invents and carries with him, silent companions in a pantomime of existential theater. Jung blends fact with imagination, humor with reflection, and meaning with meaninglessness, as his meanderings become an absorbing, engaging, quintessential novel of ideas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJung Young Moon\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Hamyang, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, in 1965. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in psychology. He made his literary début in 1996 with the novel \u003cem\u003eA Man Who Barely Exists\u003c\/em\u003e. Jung is also an accomplished translator who has translated more than forty books from English into Korean, including works by John Fowles, Raymond Carver, and Germaine Greer. 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Stories that go the other way around are as rare as hens’ teeth…\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeven Samurai Swept Away in a River \u003c\/em\u003eopens a window into a non-traditional narrative prose style.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eAsian Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is a slim and beautiful volume. That’s important for this particular book because this is… a piece of art. 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. 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These autobiographical stories display a Tarkovsky-esque mix of nostalgia and philosophical insight, written in a simple yet profound style looking back on a life’s path that led Sentsov to become an internationally renowned dissident artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSentsov’s charges seemingly stem from his opposition to Russia’s invasion and occupation of eastern Ukraine where he lived in the Crimea. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in August 2015 on spurious terrorism charges after he was kidnapped in his house and put through a grossly unfair trial by a Russian military court, marred by allegations of torture. Many of the stories included here were read during international campaigns by PEN International, the European Film Academy, and Amnesty International, among others, to support the case for Sentsov across the world. Sentsov’s final words at his trial, “Why bring up a new generation of slaves?” have become a rallying cry for his cause. He spent 145 days on hunger strike in 2018 to urge the Russian authorities to release all Ukrainians unfairly imprisoned in Russia, an act of profound courage that contributed to the European Parliament’s awarding him the prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSentsov remained in a prison camp in Russia until the eve of this book's printing, published in collaboration with PEN Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOleh Sentsov\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a Ukranian filmmaker and writer from Crimea, best known for his 2011 film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGamer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Sentsov was arrested in May 2014 in Crimea on suspicion of “plotting terrorist acts,” after participating in the EuroMayden demonstrations that led to the overthrow of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and helping deliver supplies to trapped Ukrainian troops during Russia’s occupation of Crimea. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, causing an outcry by international human rights groups who condemned his imprisonment as a fabrication by the Russian government in an attempt to silence dissent, and calling for investigations into reports of torture and witness coercion. In 2017 he was given the PEN\/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. Sentsov’s work includes several scripts, plays, and essays, as well as two short films, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Perfect Day for Bananafish\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Horn of the Bull\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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In contrast to his rococo contemporaries, Goethe’s poetry draws on the graceful simplicity of German folk rhythms to develop complex, transcendent themes. 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Yideum captures with raw honesty the sense of dread felt by many Korean women during this time as Jeong struggles in a swirl of misguided desires and hopelessness against a society distorted by competing ideologies, sexual violence, and cultural conservatism. 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This tightly-wound, exacting story is set during the late 80’s, a time of student activism and suppression in Korea. Jeong Yeoul is unforgettable and mesmerizing as she navigates college life, gender norms, politics, and death.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Anna, Bookseller at City Lights Bookstore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“As she deals with the traumas of a family member’s death, a friend’s suicide, and her own sexual assault, there is something powerfully irrefutable about the narrator’s untethered unloading of confessions, observations, and scathing rage. 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In this novel, the second in a trilogy, Rahmani’s narrator contemplates the loss of her native language and her imprisonment and exile for being Muslim, woven together in an exploration of the political and personal relationship of language within the fraught history of Islam. Drawing inspiration from the oral histories of her native Berber language, the Koran, and French children’s tales, Rahmani combines fiction and lyric essay in to tell an important story, both powerful and visionary, of identity, persecution, and violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Algerian-born academic and author \u003cstrong\u003eZahia Rahmani\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of France’s leading art historians and writers of fiction, memoirs, and cultural criticism. 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She is the founder and director of INHA’s ambitious Interactive Bibliographic Database on the globalization of art, its history and theoretical impact. Rahmani is a member of the Global Visual Cultures Academic Committee and she also created the graduate research program at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, which she directed from 1999-2002. Her multi-year international research project at the INHA in Paris and Marseille culminated in \u003cem\u003eMade in Algeria: Genealogy of a Territory\u003c\/em\u003e, a book and current exhibition of colonial cartography, high and popular visual culture, and contemporary art at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM), located in Marseille.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMatt Reeck\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning poet and translator from the French, Urdu, Hindi, and Korean. 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The book opens as a series of footnotes from Trad as he justifies changes he makes. As the novel progresses, Trad begins to take over the writing, methodically breaking down the work of the original writer and changing the course of the text. The lines between reality and fiction start to blur as Trad's world overlaps with the characters in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslator's Revenge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, who seem to grow more and more independent of Trad's increasingly deranged struggle to control the plot. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRevenge of the Translator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a brilliant, rule-defying exploration of literature, the act of writing and translating, and the often complicated relationship between authors and their translators.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrice Matthieussent\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is an award-winning translator of over 200 novels from English into French, including the writings of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJim Harrison\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, for which he was awarded the 2013 Prix Jules Janin from the Académie française. In 2000, he was awarded the UNESCO-Françoise Gallimard Prize for his translation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRobert McLiam Wilson's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEureka Street\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. His other translations include the works of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Annie Dillard, Rudolph Wurlitzer,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eCharles Bukowski.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e He graduated from the École nationale supérieure Mines de Paris in 1973, and earned his PhD in philosophy in 1977. Matthieussent currently resides in France, where he teaches the history of contemporary art and aesthetics at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRevenge of the Translator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, forthcoming from Deep Vellum in 2018, is his first novel, and was awarded the Prix du style Cultura upon publication in France in 2009.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmma Ramadan\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis a graduate of Brown University, received her Master's in Cultural Translation from the American University of Paris, and recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship for literary translation in Morocco. Her translation of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne Garreta's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSphinx\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewas published by Deep Vellum in spring 2015 and was nominated for both the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award. Her translation of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne Parian's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprose poem\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMonospace\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewas released by La Presse in fall 2015, and her translation of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFouad Laroui's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePrix Goncourt story collection\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas published in spring 2016. Her forthcoming translations of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLaroui's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edebut novel in English\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Tribulations of the Last Sjilmassi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrice Matthiuessent'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003es\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRevenge of the Translator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewill be published by Deep Vellum in 2018.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReviews\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEuropeNow\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Best Translations of 2018\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“At once a powerful satire and an ode to a collaborative art form, this delightful novel will have readers scratching their heads, retracing their steps, and delighting anew in the art of translation, including Ramadan’s own skillful work here.”\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e —\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Here is a thrilling meta novel originally written in French - a peek into the mind of an obsessive, and increasingly unstable translator. Written entirely of footnoted annotations, it’s about a French translator translating a fictional work back into its original language, attempting to justify his growing changes to the text.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLibrairie Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“…stuffed with symbols, mises en abyme, and direct and indirect comments that state or suggest that we cannot know where the limits of fiction and pretence lie and how far they extend.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eErike Fülöp, University of Hamburg\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Matthieussent’s novel is a revenge indeed, a postmodern tour de force where the notions of original, translation, source and target texts, author and translator, are blurred to the point of becoming irrelevant, shedding a whole new light on the concepts of faithfulness and creativity, and redefining typographical and cultural spaces.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePierre-Alexis Mevel and Dawn Cornelio, University of Nottingham\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“We are at the heart of Literature, with its capacity to make the real vibrate, to reach it using words.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant… worthy of our Umberto Eco.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRiccardo, Rossiello,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoloLibri\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“An intensely thrilling tale of intrigue and translation with a comedic undercurrent, the novel explores the transcendent power of obsessive dedication and the blurred lines between reality and text.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWorld Literature Today \u003c\/em\u003e(Winter 2019) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A gripping and hilarious exploration of literature come to life and showcases translation as the ultimate act of creation. A wonderful read!”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCaravansérail Bookstore (London, UK)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“If 2017 was the year when the translation community rallied around Kate Briggs’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis Little Art\u003c\/em\u003e, then 2019 should be the year of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRevenge of the Translator\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnomatomania\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“This barrage of symbols may sound overwhelming, but in fact the ingenious, and sometimes plain outrageous, devices Matthieussent engineers to continue reintroducing these elements into the text is one of the great joys of the book. This network of symbols, which the reader is constantly trying to process and make sense of, is what drives the novel on and stops it from descending (completely) into farce.”\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnomatomania\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Here is a thrilling meta novel originally written in French - a peek into the mind of an obsessive, and increasingly unstable translator. Written entirely of footnoted annotations, it’s about a French translator translating a fictional work back into its original language, attempting to justify his growing changes to the text.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLibrairie Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly Books of the Week\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“It’s a credit to Ramadan that\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRevenge of the Translator\u003c\/em\u003e, in its entirety, manages to feel like a necessary transgression. You could say that she didn’t do much, didn’t change much, didn’t stray much. But you could also say that it was her most transgressive, subversive move to forego revenge, content instead to disappear.” —\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlec Joyner, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFull Stop\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Ramadan opts for unabashed provocation, uprooting the text from its cultural stasis and holding it up to the piercing scrutiny of today’s most inflammatory concerns. It’s a work that amounts to a critical reinvention that aspires not to a spot among the translated literary canon, but to the unraveling of the very standards by which that canon is praised.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArshy Azizi,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Wonderfully lost in the intricately woven plots, in the novel’s surreal atmosphere and rebellious humor, the reader encounters translation as a place for humanity—flawed, powerful, and shared.”\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/em\u003e’s August Book Club Selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"So\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRevenge of the Translator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an elaborate variation on the usual novel of an author playing a role in his own work, manipulating his characters even more directly...It's an amusing idea, and fairly amusingly played out, with Prote a significant figure, cruelly playing with his characters but then outflanked by the translator. Matthieussent has good fun with this, on its different levels...\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eM.A.Orthofer,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Complete Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A clever satire on American pulp novels... There are twists aplenty, not least of which are the many meta-fictional aspects.\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTony Malone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Confusing, sexy, intelligent, funny, disarming, irresistible . . . one of the great metatextual novels of the 21st century (so far), and it’s difficult for me to be comfortable with a statement that bold, but honestly, it really is that good. 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Pitol is an influential contemporary of the most well-known authors of the Latin American “Boom,” and began publishing his works in the 1960s. In recognition of the importance of his entire canon of work, Pitol was awarded the two most important prizes in the Spanish language world: the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1999 (now known as the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages) and the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious Spanish-language literary prize, often called the “Spanish language Nobel,\" in 2005.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Henson\u003c\/strong\u003e is a literary translator and assistant professor of translation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey. 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Her translation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbnousse Shalmani’s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Khomeini, Sade and Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (2016) won a PEN Translates award in 2015. After a decade translating creative texts in gastronomy, the arts, travel and tourism, lifestyle, fashion and advertising, her love of literature drew her to literary translation, with a particular focus on women’s writing. Her work has been published by Phaidon, World Editions and online by Palabras Errantes As well as translating literature, she owns the translation agency CMC Translations providing transcreation, proofreading, editing and revising on a daily basis for various private clients and agencies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35509261533347,"sku":"9781941920619","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35509261566115,"sku":"9781941920626","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/033-The_Imagined_Land.jpg?v=1597087555"},{"product_id":"geography-of-rebels-trilogy","title":"Geography of Rebels Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Maria Gabriela Llansol\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated from the Portuguese by Audrey Young\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEnglish debut with three linked novellas by influential cult Portuguese writer interweaving history, poetry, and philosophy into transcendent literary vision.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSeptember 25, 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e9781941920633\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeBook: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e9781941920640\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Geography of Rebels Trilogy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, containing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Book of Communities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Remaining Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn the House of July \u0026amp; August\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, is Maria Gabriela Llansol’s debut work to appear in English, containing her own earliest novels, written between 1974-1979, an interlinked trilogy of works originally published separately, but published in English together to give readers the chance to witness the breathtaking scope of her work as it was laid out from the very beginnings of her sterling literary career.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“If anyone might be profitably compared to Clarice Lispector, it might well be Maria Gabriela Llansol. This is because of the fundamentally mystical impulse that animates them both, their conception of writing as a sacred act, a prayer: their idea that it was through writing that a person can reach ‘the core of being.’” —Benjamin Moser, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhy This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Llansol’s text . . . creates spaces where conjecture and counterfactual accounts operate freely granting a glimpse of an alternative reality.” —Claire Williams, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGeography of Rebels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003epresents the English debut of three linked novellas from influential Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol. With echoes of Clarice Lispector, Llansol’s novellas evoke her vision of writing as life, conjuring historical figures and weaving together history, poetry, and philosophy in a transcendent journey through one of Portugal’s greatest creative minds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp 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\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaria Gabriela Llansol \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e(1931-2008) is a singular figure in Portuguese literature, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, yet never before translated into English. Although entirely unknown in the United States, she twice won the award for best novel from the Portuguese Writers’ Association with her textually idiosyncratic, fragmentary, and densely poetic writing; other recipients of this prize include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJosé Saramago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAntónio Lobos Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Upon her death in 2008, she left behind twenty-seven published books and more than seventy unpublished notebooks, all of which evade any traditional definitions of genre. Despite this body of work, only a few short pages have ever been translated into English. She was born in Lisbon, where her bibliophile father was chief accountant at a paper factory and her doting mother a housewife. She graduated with a degree in law from Lisbon University in 1955 and two years later obtained a degree in educational sciences. She then ran a nursery school before publishing her first short stories in 1962, inspired by her interaction with children. In 1965 she and her husband Augusto Joaquim moved to Belgium, in voluntary exile from the repressive regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. She would spend twenty years there in voluntary exile, teaching at the local school, translating Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and reading medieval mystics.The experience of educating children from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities - some with problems such as autism or Down's syndrome - influenced her work considerably. So did the perspective afforded by living and working in a foreign language, in an isolated community far from home. The couple became part of a cooperative that ran an experimental school, and also made and sold furniture and food.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Unlike her contemporaries back in Portugal, she did not write to describe reality, but rather to exist through the process of writing. Eliding any sense of plot, her texts instead transcribe the movements of bodies and animals and light. (They “correspond to inner earthquakes,” she would say in an interview.) Her first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Book of Communities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, was published in 1977. It is the first volume of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGeography of Rebels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, a trilogy of novellas mapping a series of encounters between poets, mystics, beguines and heretics, all of which take place in another version of the medieval war between peasants and princes in Central Europe. Llansol appropriates figures like Saint John of the Cross and Thomas Muntzer and pulls them into a transhistorical dialogue, constructing a succession of what she calls “luminous scenes,” where they coexist outside of time. In the mid-1980s she moved back to Portugal, to the historic hilltop town of Sintra, and from then on published almost one book a year, largely ignored by the general public but gradually gathering a loyal, diverse group of readers, including academics and even the current president of the European commission, José Manuel Barroso, who has called her writing \"intense and sublime\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAudrey Young\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a translator, researcher, and archivist. She received a Fulbright grant to research non-theatrical film in Portugal and studied Portuguese language and culture at the University of Lisbon with a scholarship from the Instituto Camões. She has worked at the Getty Research Institute, the Cineteca Nacional México, and the Arquivo Nacional do Brasil, among other archives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEuropeNow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e's Best Translations of 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Imagine Clarice Lispector speaking with specters. Imagine Emily Dickinson seeking and finding a community. Imagine Hilda Hilst rebelling further into the madding crowd. Imagine Virginia Woolf as a Lisbon-born medium channeling displaced waves of consciousness. Imagine Fernando Pessoa as a woman building edenic spaces outside of our time-space continuum. If you can imagine some amalgamation of these descriptors, you may come close to conjuring up the writings of Maria Gabriela Llansol, but you can never quite know their protean beauty until you have entered these textual landscapes for yourself, and discovered the alternate realities they open up, where time feels simultaneously historical and ahistorical, and space simultaneously geographical and ageographical. We are fortunate that Audrey Young has translated Llansol’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGeography of Rebels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eTrilogy into English for the first time. Now we no longer have an excuse to overlook Llansol’s idiosyncratic genius.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e—Tyler Malone,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"This is an astonishing, otherworldly and utterly original book, and it reveals Llansol as one of the most fascinating Portuguese writers of the twentieth century.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Annie McDermott,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“I am intrigued and mesmerized by Llansol’s prose, her mysterious and beautiful sentences that push the novel beyond its usual constraints, and, at times, approach prose poetry. Like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, Llansol’s method is a radical one and, for those readers who like to be challenged, worth checking out.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Gary Michael Perry, FOYLES in Charing Cross (London, UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Reading\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eGeography of Rebels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an unforgettable experience. Llansol’s hallucinatory prose is genuinely transfixing.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Joshua Tait,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Carolina Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Her idiosyncratic, highly creative texts reached beyond conventional \"figurative\" writing. . . . In particular, her narrators function almost as a medium, or channel, for a series of fluctuating identities and voices or visitors (figures) who inhabit her consciousness and engage in discussion among themselves. Llansol's text also creates spaces where conjecture and counterfactual accounts operate freely - granting a glimpse of an alternative reality. She created iconoclastic, anti-nationalist texts that deflated mythical figures and representations of the past. She stressed Europe's evolution through the growth of free will, free thought and flourishing artistic and scientific developments.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Claire Williams,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"A commotion of a novel. With abrupt sentences and a narrative that darts, swerves, and veers, it is a perplexing read, but in a way that innervates, rather than discourages.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Benjamin, Librarie Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly (Montreal, QC)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Intense and sublime.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—José Manuel Barroso, former president of the European Commission\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Abstract, speculative thought, difficult in its way, but Maria Gabriela Llansol makes it sing.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Anthony Brown,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTimes Flow Stemmed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Her figures are subjected to deformations and subject to a series of precise sensations. It is the precision of thought that gives her story clarity and makes it a container for speculative questions about the nature of writing and close reading. I found reading\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Book of Communities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ean intensely felt experience, nervous as much as cerebral. It is a lived experience of Merleau-Ponty’s essay on language not residing purely in the brain, but being something we do with our bodies, words are “a certain use made of my phonatory equipment, a certain modulation of my body as a being in the world.” In that sense, like poetry, it is a book that benefits by being read aloud, playing with the elisions and sound structures. Its translator, Audrey Young, from what I can tell from comparing its original online, has done an outstanding job of retaining its rich tone and rhythm.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTime's Flow Stemmed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Imagine if Don Mclean’s song American Pie was written about Christian mysticism instead of rock-n-roll. Llansol immerses her readers in a shared hallucinatory vision, seemingly fueled by religious hysteria and open to multiple interpretations. . . . There is magic in how Llansol puts words together—and more of the poet in her than the prose writer. . . . Llansol is a writer’s writer, unrestrained and reckless in her use of language. And wholly uninterested in catering to the general reading public. Which brings us to what many would say is the major challenge in Llansol’s work. The trilogy has more in common with a medieval Book of Hours than modern fiction. . . There is a phosphorescent brilliance here. And for those who can stay the course, rewards to be had.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Tara Cheesman-Olmsted,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Quarterly Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35508620394659,"sku":"9781941920633","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35508620427427,"sku":"9781941920640","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/034-The_Geography_of_Rebels.jpg?v=1596836271"},{"product_id":"bride-and-groom","title":"Bride and Groom","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlisa Ganieva\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Russian by Dr. Carol Apollonio\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRunner-up for 2015 Russian Booker Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eA multilayered, magical story of love and fate as two modern city-dwellers grapple with traditional family expectations to find happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/strong\u003e: March 27, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781941920596\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEbook: \u003c\/strong\u003e9781941920602\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom one of the most exciting voices in modern Russian literature, Alisa Ganieva, comes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBride and Groom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the tumultuous love story of two young city-dwellers who meet when they return home to their families in rural Dagestan. When traditional family expectations and increasing religious and cultural tension threaten to shatter their bond, Marat and Patya struggle to overcome obstacles determined to keep them apart, while fate seems destined to keep them together until the very end.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlisa Ganieva\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, born in 1985, grew up in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, and currently lives in Moscow. Her literary debut, the novella \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalaam, Dalgat!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, published under a male pseudonym, provoked contradictory reactions in Russia: astonishment, especially among young Russians, at this unknown part of their country; and anger among radical Islamists at this negative portrayal of their homeland by one of their own. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalaam, Dalgat!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e won the prestigious Debut Prize in 2009, and Ganieva revealed her true identity only at the award ceremony. Ganieva works as a journalist and literary critic. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mountain and the Wall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her first novel, shortlisted for all three of Russia's major literary awards, and has already been translated into several languages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Carol Apollonio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Professor of Slavic \u0026amp; Eurasian Studies at Duke University. Her most recent translations include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerman Sadulaev's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Maya Pill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Dalkey Archive, 2014) and new versions of Chekhov stories. In addition to being an accomplished translator,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eDr. Apollonio\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also one of the world’s foremost scholars on both \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoevsky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnton Chekhov.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e She was awarded the Russian Ministry of Cultures prestigious Chekhov Medal in 2011 for her contribution to the study of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnton Chekhov’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eliterature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eReviews\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Read Russia 2020 Prize\u003cbr\u003eRunner-up for the 2015 Russian Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e's 100 Best Books of 2018\u003cbr\u003eOne of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e's Notable Translations of 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAsian Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e’ Best Books of 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRussia Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e's 7 Russian Books Translated in 2018 You Have to Read \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncluded in Strand Bookstore’s “Best of Small Press” Shelf in Manhattan, NYC (November 2018)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor Alisa Ganieva\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/03\/opinion\/russia-poland-history-laws.html\"\u003ewrote an op-ed for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon the revisionist history of Russia! 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Though set in the traditional confines of a largely Muslim North Caucasus, this divide is a microcosm for a very real wedge between two distinct generations in Russia today, a wedge that’s become a powerful force in struggles from music consumption and social media, to what the future of Russian politics will look like.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Nadia Beard,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Calvert Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Much as they try, [the characters’] individual stories are mere fodder for the dysfunctional social order built on systemic corruption and terror.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Olga Zilberbourg,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"A bold and startling novel.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Viv Groskop,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ganieva's writing has a kind of magic.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Lauren Smart, \u003cem\u003eDallas Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":35464957722787,"sku":"9781941920596","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":35464957788323,"sku":"9781941920602","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/032-Bride_and_Groom_1.jpg?v=1596661016"},{"product_id":"the-golden-cockerel-amp-other-writings","title":"The Golden Cockerel \u0026 Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBy\u003c\/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/deepvellum.org\/authors\/juan-rulfo\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan Rulfo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Douglas J. Weatherford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Juan Rulfo is our most important author.” —Yuri Herrera, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSigns Preceding the End of the World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis work presents Rulfo's cinematic second novel in English for the first time ever alongside several stories never before translated.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e May 16, 2017\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 9781941920589\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Among contemporary writers in Mexico today [1959], Juan Rulfo is expected to rank among the immortals.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe legendary title novella from one of Mexico’s most influential writers is published here in English for the first time on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This lost masterwork, collected with his previously untranslated stories, marks a landmark event in world literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan Rulfo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (1917-1986) was one of Mexico’s premier authors of the twentieth century and an important precursor of “magical realism” in Latin American writing. Rulfo has been credited with influencing the work of several generations of Latin American writers, including Sergio Pitol and Gabriel García Márquez. He is well known for his novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePedro\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePáramo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and short story collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Burning Plain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEl llano en llamas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDeep Vellum’s forthcoming publication of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Golden Cockerel \u0026amp; Other Writings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e introduces his cinematic novella, originally made into an award-winning film, into English for the first time, along with a collection of rare, previously untranslated writings. Rulfo received Mexico’s National Prize for Literature (Premio Nacional de Literatura) in 1970, was elected to the Mexican Academy of Language (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua) in 1980, and received the Cervantes Prize (Premio Cervantes), the highest literary award in Spanish, in 1985. Rulfo suffered from lung cancer in his final months and died on January 7, 1986 at his home in Mexico City.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Among contemporary writers in Mexico today [1959], Juan Rulfo is expected to rank among the immortals.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“To read Rulfo’s stories is to inhabit Mexico and, in the process, to have Mexico inhabit \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eyou\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Oscar Casares, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“You can read Rulfo’s slight but dense body of work in a couple of days, but that represents only a first step into territories that are yet to be definitively mapped. Their exploration is one of the more remarkable journeys in literature.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chris Power, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Rulfo, through his photographs and his books, seems to be saying, Look! See! This world is here before us, it lacerates us with the anguished and ill-fated weight of its tangible reality. Come look!” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Rulfo’s work is at its core about people who do their best to unburden themselves of the stories they never stop telling.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Peter Orner, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“…This is a book that is valuable in itself for its expression of the narrative talent of Juan Rulfo…Apart from the first images, which are truly cinematic and serve to introduce the protagonist…the reader soon forgets that he is reading a storyline written for the cinema.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Evodia Escalante, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCasa Del Tiempo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Rulfo’s work is infinitely readable, inventive, and short… \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Golden Cockerel \u0026amp; Other Writings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e shows Rulfo at his most intellectual and socially aware.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joshua Foster, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Octavio Paz has said that Juan Rulfo ‘is the only Mexican novelist who has given us an image—instead of just a description—of our landscape.’ By the same token we could say that Josephine Sacabo is the only photographer who has given us an image of that most elusive of landscapes conceived by Juan Rulfo—Cosala.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuenos Aires Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Rulfo’s work is infinitely readable, inventive, and short… \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Golden Cockerel \u0026amp; Other Writings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e shows Rulfo at his most intellectual and socially aware.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joshua Foster, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"...This is a book that is valuable in itself for its expression of the narrative talent of Juan Rulfo...Apart from the first images, which are truly cinematic and serve to introduce the protagonist...the reader soon forgets that he is reading a storyline written for the cinema.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Evodia Escalante, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCasa Del Tiempo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTHE MORNING WAS BREAKING.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAlong the abandoned streets of San Miguel del Milagro, one or two shawl-covered women strolled toward the church, answering the call for first mass. A few others swept the dusty streets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn the distance, far enough away that his words were imperceptible, one could hear the clamor of a crier. One of those town criers that go from street corner to corner shouting the description of some lost animal, of a missing boy, or of a lost girl… In the case of the girl the account went further, since in addition to giving the date of her disappearance it was imperative to announce the likely culprit who had stolen her away, where she had been taken, and whether the parents wanted to object to or accept the arrangement. This was done to keep the town informed of what had happened and to shame the runaways into joining in matrimony… As for the lost animals, the crier would have to go out and search for them himself if announcing their loss came to naught, since otherwise no one would pay for the job.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAs the women disappeared in the direction of the church, the crier’s report could be heard even closer, until, stopped on some street corner and projecting his voice through his hands, he launched his shrill and quick-witted chants:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e—Tan-colored sorrel… Of large stature… Five years old… Timid… Mark on its haunch… Branded on the same… Draw reigns… Wandered off the day before yesterday from the Potrero Hondo… Belongs to Don Secundino Colmenero. Twenty pesos reward to whoever finds him… No questions asked…This last sentence was long and out of tune. After a while the crier walked a short ways and repeated the same refrain, until the announcement faded and eventually dissolved into the farthest corners of the village.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe guy who plied this trade was Dionisio Pinzo´n, one of the poorest men of San Miguel del Milagro. He lived in a miserable shack on the edge of town in the company of his mother, an unwell and aged woman, more from want than from years. And even though the appearance of Dionisio Pinzo´n was that of a strong man, in truth he was disabled, with one of his arms disfigured, who knows just how. What’s certain is that this made it impossible for him to complete some tasks, whether as a laborer or as a farmhand, the only occupations that were to be had in town. As such he was good for nothing, or at least that’s how people saw him. And that’s why he dedicated himself to the vocation of town crier, a trade that didn’t require the use of his arms and that he completed quite well, since he had a voice and a willingness to do the job.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThere was no corner of San Miguel del Milagro where he didn’t shout his news, perhaps working on commission for some client or, if not, searching for the priest’s scrawny cow that had the bad habit of bolting for the hills every time it discovered the gate to the parish corral open, something that happened all too often. And even when there was no shortage of men out of work who, upon hearing the news, would offer to go in search of the aforementioned cow, there were times when Dionisio would take the task upon himself and receive for his efforts only a few blessings and the promise of collecting some payment in Heaven.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThrough it all, whether he was paid or not, his voice never wavered and he just kept at it since, to be honest, what else could he do to keep from dying of hunger. And yet he didn’t always make it home with his hands empty, like on this occasion when he had the job of announcing the loss of Don Secundino Colmenero’s sorrel, from early in the morning until late at night, when it seemed that his yelling was blending with the barking of the dogs in the sleepy town. In any event, the horse had not turned up by the end of the day, nor was there anyone who could confirm its whereabouts, and Don Secundino wasn’t going to pay up without first seeing his animal napping in the corral, not wanting to throw good money after bad. And yet so that Dionisio Pinzo´n wouldn’t become discouraged and stop announcing his loss, he gave him a tenth of a liter of beans as an advance that the crier wrapped in his scarf and carried home about midnight, which is when he arrived, burdened with hunger and fatigue. And like other times, his mother had managed to prepare him a bit of coffee and some navegantes, which weren’t anything more than parboiled cactus leaves that at least served to fool his stomach.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBut things weren’t always so bad. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43823706210553,"sku":"9781941920589","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0433\/1651\/0883\/products\/028-Golden_Cockerel.jpg?v=1597087368"}],"url":"https:\/\/store.deepvellum.org\/collections\/translations.oembed?page=7","provider":"Deep Vellum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}