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They are wonderfully assured, and genuinely strange.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Likes","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003eTse joins the ranks of artists currently remaking the world, from Yoko Tawada to César Aira.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eOn one level, the novel is about a middle-aged professor’s doomed love affair with a doll named Aliss. But it is also a highly ambitious and original exploration of life under oppressive political regimes. Set in an alternate near-future, \u003cem\u003eOwlish\u003c\/em\u003e is a boldly innovative wake-up call, forcing readers to confront the perils of apathy, complacency, and indifference.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpon original publication the novel was a finalist for the fiction prize at the 2021 Taipei Book Fair. 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Owlish
With your face covered, sneaking into a city you thought you knew, are you still yourself? Or have you crossed to another world, where the streets are unpredictable and the people strangers, where you might at any moment run into some unknown dream version of yourself?
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Plus, some of the world’s most incisive discourse on these topics is now coming from South Korea.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eCho’s sophomore import feels especially, eerily urgent, with prescient references to a fatal pandemic. … A chilling, dystopic fable of corporate greed, climate destruction, and haves and havenots revelations that seems perfectly poised for film adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Hamilton Cain","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eThis successor to Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (2020), Cho’s chronicle of the misogynistic forces behind South Korea’s #MeToo movement—a finalist for the National Book Award—addresses another equally corrosive social horror. Read. Weep. Learn.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eSaha\u003c\/em\u003e is its own Orwellian vision: bleak and berserk, brilliant and beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Hamilton Cain","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Oprah Daily","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eChilling … Cho’s close-ups consistently captivate, and the author has an easy hand capturing her characters’ spirit. 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No Friend but the Mountains reminds us that no matter how different we may be from one another, whether it’s the colour of our skin, the god we pray to, where we are born, or where we call home, that we have words, language, and literature in common. I celebrate the courage of Boochani, who has pursued this ideal, this love of writing, and the faith in words as a tool to inform, to be a doorway to new and unexpected worlds, challenge tyrannies, and seek justice.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Jennifer Clement","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"Jennifer Clement","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Under atrocious conditions [Behrouz Boochani] has managed to write and publish a record of his experiences (experiences yet to be concluded), a record that will certainly leave his jailers gnashing their teeth . . . No Friend but the Mountains provides a wholly engrossing account of the first four years that Boochani spent on Manus, up to the time when the prison camp was closed and the prisoners resettled elsewhere on the island. Just as absorbing is his analysis of the system that reigns in the camp, a system imposed by the Australian authorities but autonomous in the sense that it holds the jailers as well as the prisoners in its grip . . . [No Friend but the Mountains is] the absorbing record of a life-transforming episode whose effects on his inner self the writer is still trying to plumb.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"J.M. Coetzee","OtherText_Accolades_2":"No Friend but the Mountains deserves a place beside some of the world’s most famous prison narratives and testaments about living in a time of genocide, slavery, and state-sponsored oppression. It brings to mind various literary siblings: the ways in which The Diary of Anne Frank sketched the life of a young girl in the period leading up to her murder in the Holocaust; how Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl painted Harriet Jacobs’s life as a fugitive in the United States; the means by which One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn showed the daily oppression of a man living in a Soviet gulag; how The Autobiography of Malcolm X charted the movement of a man through prison life and into militancy as the most famous Black Muslim in America; and how Martin Luther King Jr. condemned arbitrary imprisonment and racial segregation in The Letter from Birmingham Jail . . . In a time of mounting hysteria and paranoia with regard to the arrival of migrants in developed countries, Behrouz Boochani reminds us that 68.5 million displaced people in the world today are the same as us. We could be them, tomorrow.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Lawrence Hill","OtherText_Accolades_2_Src":"Lawrence Hill","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBoochani’s story went global when \u003cem\u003eNo Friend but the Mountains\u003c\/em\u003e won the Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia’s richest literary prize. The book won both the prize for nonfiction, as well as the overall winner for literature. The publisher had to make a special request that his work be eligible, despite the fact that he is essentially stateless. His win is a clear political statement of the Australian literary community’s objection to its government’s continued exile of Boochani and other refugees on Manus Island and Nauru Island, the two notorious immigration immigration detention facilities.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAustralian sales are around 30K now (as of April 2019) but are projected to reach 50K before the end of the year. Rights have been sold in the following territories: Homeward in Taiwan, Add Editore in Italy, Random House in Germany, Picador UK, Hugo in France, Al Arabi in Egypt, Leya in Portugal and Jurgen Maas Uitgeverij in the Netherlands. In the coming months the agent expects to conclude deals in Japan, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, Lithuania, Sri Lanka, Denmark, Greece and Sweden. Film rights have been sold to Aurora Australia.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIMELY SUBJECT MATTER — REFUGEES AND FREE PRESS UNDER ATTACK:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe detainment of refugees is a hot-button issue. Boochani’s rare insider’s first-person account is beautifully and poetically told, and symbolic of the realities and circumstances tens of thousands of migrants are living in today. In addition, the reason for his flight from Iran — escaping persecution as a journalist — is more and more common with the increase of autocratic nations: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/feb\/03\/observer-view-on-assad-regime-murder-marie-colvin?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRECENT TALK OF REOPENING THE DETENTION CENTRES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe situation on Manus and Nauru Islands will continue to be in the news throughout the year. On February 13, 2019, the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, threatened to reopen the Manus Island detention centre after a medical evacuation bill — the new legislation sets out the conditions by which sick people on Nauru and Manus can be transferred to Australia for medical treatment. In the event there is medical advice from two or more treating doctors that a person needs to be evacuated, the home affairs minister has grounds for refusal.) passed in the Senate.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nHere is information on the medical evacuation bill:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/feb\/13\/nine-facts-about-the-medical-evacuation-bill\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAnd Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response, upping the rhetoric on fearing migrants and refugees:\u003cbr\u003e\r\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/feb\/13\/coalition-to-reopen-christmas-island-detention-centre-as-senate-passes-refugee-transfer-bill\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA PEN INTERNATIONAL WRITER:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePEN International has called on the Australian government for Boochani’s release. We will be approaching PEN International, PEN America, PEN U.K., and PEN Canada for support on this work, and through our efforts in publicizing the book we will also push for the author’s release.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDEMAND FOR IMMIGRANT STORIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNever before has there been such interest in immigrant and refugee stories, as demonstrated by the success of story collections by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Djamila Ibrahim, Irina Kovalyova, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ayelet Tsabari.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACCLAIMED COMPANION FILM:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBehrouz Boochani shot the feature-length documentary \u003cem\u003eChauka, Please Tell Us the Time\u003c\/em\u003e with Arash Kamali Sarvestani on a cellphone at the detention centre. 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It was written not on paper or a computer, but thumbed on a phone and smuggled out of Manus Island in the form of thousands of text messages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe should recognise the extent of Behrouz Boochani’s achievement by first acknowledging the difficulty of its creation, the near impossibility of its existence. Everything has been done by our government to dehumanise asylum seekers. Their names and their stories are kept from us. On Nauru and Manus Island, they live in a zoo of cruelty. Their lives are stripped of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese prisoners were all people who had been imprisoned without charge, without conviction, and without sentence. It is a particularly Kafkaesque fate that frequently has the cruellest effect — and one fully intended by their Australian jailers – of destroying hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThus the cry for freedom was transmuted into charring flesh as 23-year-old Omid Masoumali burnt his body in protest. The screams of 21-year-old Hodan Yasin as she too set herself alight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what we, Australia, have become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ignored begging of a woman on Nauru being raped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA girl who sewed her lips together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA child refugee who stitched a heart into their hand and didn’t know why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehrouz Boochani’s revolt took a different form. For the one thing that his jailers could not destroy in Behrouz Boochani was his belief in words: their beauty, their necessity, their possibility, their liberating power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so over the course of his imprisonment Behrouz Boochani began one of the more remarkable careers in Australian journalism: reporting about what was happening on Manus Island in the form of tweets, texts, phone videos, calls, and emails. In so doing he defied the Australian government which went to extreme lengths to prevent refugees’ stories being told, constantly seeking to deny journalists access to Manus Island and Nauru; going so far, for a time, as to legislate the draconian section 42 of the \u003cem\u003eAustralian Border Force Act\u003c\/em\u003e, which allowed for the jailing for two years of any doctors or social workers who bore public witness to children beaten or sexually abused, to acts of rape or cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis words came to be read around the world, to be heard across the oceans and over the shrill cries of the legions of paid propagandists. With only the truth on his side and a phone in his hand, one imprisoned refugee alerted the world to Australia’s great crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehrouz Boochani has now written a strange and terrible book chronicling his fate as a young man who has spent \u003cem\u003efive years\u003c\/em\u003e on Manus Island as a prisoner of the Australian government’s refugee policies — policies in which both our major parties have publicly competed in cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading this book is difficult for any Australian. We pride ourselves on decency, kindness, generosity, and a fair go. None of these qualities are evident in Boochani’s account of hunger, squalor, beatings, suicide and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was painfully reminded in his descriptions of the Australian officials’ behaviour on Manus of my father’s descriptions of the Japanese commanders’ behaviour in the POW camps where he and fellow Australian POWs suffered so much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat has become of us when it is we who now commit such crimes?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis account demands a reckoning. Someone must answer for these crimes. Because if they don’t, the one certainty that history teaches us is that the injustice of Manus Island and Nauru will one day be repeated on a larger, grander, and infinitely more tragic scale in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomeone is responsible, and it is they, and not the innocent, to whose great suffering this book bears such disturbing witness, who should be in jail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, though, is something greater than just a \u003cem\u003eJ’accuse\u003c\/em\u003e. It is a profound victory for a young poet who showed us all how much words can still matter. Australia imprisoned his body, but his soul remained that of a free man. His words have now irrevocably become our words, and our history must henceforth account for his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hope one day to welcome Behrouz Boochani to Australia as what I believe he has shown himself to be in these pages. A writer. A great Australian writer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Richard Flanagan, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv \u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eExcerpt from Chapter 5—\u003cbr\/\u003eA Christmas (Island) Tale \/ A Stateless Rohingya Boy Sent Away to Follow the Star of Exile\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey load us onto a bus. A few days ago in this exact area a bloody battle erupted, right in the place where we are now standing like submissive sheep. Lebanese refugees stood up to defy the guards who wanted to load them on board. But the guards smashed them and beat them down. They annihilated them, beat down on the arms and faces of a few of them. The guards dragged their battered and blood-soaked bodies over the concrete. They banished them to Manus Island. No matter how the refugees tried to resist, they couldn’t alter the political machinations of a government, a government that had just recently taken power, that had gone mad with the mere whiff of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bus takes off. The path to the airport is surrounded by jungle. The conversation inside the vehicle is about the possibility of a particular scenario: that we will disembark at Darwin Airport and find out that all this talk is nothing but a ridiculous performance, the whole thing just a farce, that this whole thing doesn’t involve Manus in any way. However, talk of this kind comes from a place of weakness. At this point, faith in an occurrence that resembles a miracle comes across as ludicrous. We have to accept the reality. Within hours we will be descending on a remote island called Manus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few police vehicles follow our bus, and a few travel ahead. It is as though they are attending to our bus like a car transporting a president. We are so disempowered that we couldn’t do anything at all, even if we wanted to. Our baggy, cumbersome clothing weighs us down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePandemonium breaks loose at the airport. Dozens of police officers stand by the plane in military mode. A few journalists have their cameras ready. All of them are waiting for us. The interpreters are there, also. That Kurdish woman has both her hands clasped behind her back. She just stands there, completely obedient. I can’t work it out; I can’t understand why they have to securitise that space. I am frightened by the journalists; I am frightened by the cameras they hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournalists inquire into everything. They are always seeking out horrific events. They acquire fodder for their work from wars, from bad occurrences, from the misery of people. I remember when I used to work for a newspaper I would become agitated from listening to all the news about, for instance, a coup d’état, a revolution, or a terrorist attack. I would begin work with great fervour and scramble for that kind of research like a vulture; in turn, I fed the appetite of the people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe journalists are staking out the situation like vultures: waiting until the wretched and miserable exit the vehicle; eager for us to come out as quickly as possible, to catch sight of the poor and helpless and launch on us —\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClick, click \/\u003cbr\/\u003eWaiting to take their photos \/ Click, click.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— and dispatch the images to the whole world. They are completely mesmerised by the government’s dirty politics and just follow along. The deal is that we have to be a warning, a lesson for people who want to seek protection in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"A stateless Kurdish-Iranian asylum-seeker detained by the Australian government won the country’s highest-paying literary prize on Thursday. But he could not attend the festivities to accept the award. Behrouz Boochani, a writer, journalist and filmmaker who has been held in offshore detention on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for more than five years, won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature for his book, No Friend but the Mountains . . . Typically, only Australian citizens or permanent residents are eligible for the award. But an exception was made in Mr. Boochani’s case because judges considered his story an Australia story, said Michael Williams, the director of the Wheeler Center, a literary institution that administers the award on behalf of the state government. ‘We canvassed the critical and broader literary reception of the book, and we made our decision on that basis,’ Mr. Williams said. ‘This is an extraordinary literary work that is an indelible contribution to Australian publishing and storytelling.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"Boochani tapped his book out in text messages to his friend Omid Tofighian, who translated the book from Persian. Before the book was published, Boochani filmed a movie, Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time, which was shot in secret, on his cell phone. He has written many articles and essays for Australian and international media. He now holds a non-resident appointment at the University of Sydney. In a different place, or at a different time, these professional recognitions, to say nothing of his many literary awards, would have signalled that Boochani is integrated into Australian society, and valued by it. But Australia’s extreme anti-immigrant turn, which preceded that of the United States by several years, has created a stark disjuncture between what the culture values and what the state allows. In an era when simply being a person in need of international protection makes a man a criminal, he cannot live in the society that has showered him with praise.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Masha Gessen","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison is an extraordinary insight into the life of several hundred men held in offshore prisons under the Australian policy of immigration detention.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Los Angeles Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"The winner of Australia’s richest literary prize did not attend the ceremony. His absence was not by choice. Behrouz Boochani, whose debut book won both the $25,000 non-fiction prize at the Victorian premier’s literary awards and the $100,000 Victorian prize for literature on Thursday night, is not allowed into Australia. The Kurdish Iranian writer is an asylum seeker who has been kept in purgatory on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for almost six years, first behind the wire of the Australian offshore detention centre, and then in alternative accommodation on the island. Now his book No Friend but the Mountains — composed one text message at a time from within the detention centre — has been recognized by a government from the same country that denied him access and locked him up.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"As war, crime, famine, and civil disruption result in growing numbers of asylum seekers, Boochani’s deeply disturbing memoir introduces readers to hard realities and reveals the wounded hearts of captors and prisoners alike.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_5":"Nominated","PrizeCodeText_6":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_7":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeCode_5":"07","PrizeCode_6":"01","PrizeCode_7":"03","PrizeName_0":"Victorian Prize for Literature","PrizeName_1":"Victorian Premier’s Prize for Nonfiction","PrizeName_2":"NSW Premier’s Literary Award: Special Award","PrizeName_3":"ABIA General Non-Fiction Book of the Year","PrizeName_4":"State Library New South Wales National Biography Award","PrizeName_5":"Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award: Autobiography \u0026amp; Memoir","PrizeName_6":"Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award: Editor’s Choice (Nonfiction)","PrizeName_7":"A New Statesman Book of the Year","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-02-11","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison.","Subtitle":"Writing from Manus Prison","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
No Friend but the Mountains
Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison.
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To read the book is to imagine being a restive, aggrieved millennial and to trace [Kim Jiyoung’s] path through everyday misogyny.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_5":"This tale has immediate resonance . . . Cho’s matter-of-fact delivery underscores the pervasive gender imbalance, while just containing the empathic rage.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_6":"Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 has much in common with Han Kang’sThe Vegetarian.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Los Angeles Review of Books","OtherText_Review_7":"[Cho Nam-joo] pulls no punches in her delineation of cultural misogyny … The author’s particular achievement is in blending political and stylistic concerns in a cool tone carefully captured in Jamie Chang’s translation … Cho’s moving, witty, and powerful novel forces us to face our reality, in which one woman is seen, pretty much, as interchangeable with any other.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Telegraph (U.K.)","OtherText_Review_8":"A clear-eyed look at damage done.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Straits Times","OtherText_Review_9":"In this fine — and beautifully translated — biography of a fictional Korean woman, we encounter the real experiences of many women around the world.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Spectator (U.K.)","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally and the most important book to have come out of South Korea since The Vegetarian.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"05","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"National Book Award for Translated Literature","PrizeName_1":"A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2020","PrizeYear_0":"2020","PrizeYear_1":"2020","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-04-14","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally and the most important book to have come out of South Korea since The Vegetarian.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally and the most important book to have come out of South Korea since The Vegetarian.
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Then Mayya lost herself to love: a silent passion, but it sent tremors surging through her slight form, night after night, cresting in waves of tears and sighs. These were moments when she truly believed she would not survive the awful force of her longing to see him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer body prostrate, ready for the dawn prayers, she made a whispered oath. By the greatness of God — I want nothing, O Lord, just to see him. I solemnly promise you, Lord, I don’t even want him to look my way … I just want to see him. That’s all I want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother hadn’t given the matter of love any particular thought, since it never would have occurred to her that pale Mayya, so silent and still, would think about anything in this mundane world beyond her threads and the selvages of her fabrics, or that she would hear anything other than the clatter of her sewing machine. Mayya seemed to hardly shift position throughout the day, or even halfway into the night, her form perched quietly on the narrow, straight-backed wood chair in front of the black sewing machine with the image of a butterfly on its side. She barely even lifted her head, unless she needed to look as she groped for her scissors or fished another spool of thread out of the plastic sewing basket which always sat in her small wood utility chest. But Mayya heard everything in the world there was to hear. She noticed the brilliant hues life could have, however motionless her body might be. Her mother was grateful that Mayya’s appetite was so meagre (even if, now and then, she felt vestiges of guilt). She hoped fervently, though she would never have put her hope into words, that one of these days someone would come along who respected Mayya’s talents as a seamstress as much as he might appreciate her abstemious ways. The someone she envisioned would give Mayya a fine wedding procession after which he would take her home with all due ceremony and regard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat someone arrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs usual Mayya was seated on that narrow chair, bent over the sewing machine at the far end of the long sitting room that opened onto the compound’s private courtyard. Her mother walked over to her, beaming. She pressed her hand gently into her daughter’s shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMayya, my dear! The son of Merchant Sulayman has asked for your hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpasms shot through Mayya’s body. Her mother’s hand suddenly felt unbearably heavy on her shoulder and her throat went dry. She couldn’t stop imagining her sewing thread winding itself around her neck like a hangman’s noose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother smiled. I thought you were too old by now to put on such a girlish show! You needn’t act so bashful, Mayya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that was that. The subject was closed and no one raised it again. Mayya’s mother busied herself assembling the wedding clothes, concocting just the right blends of incense, having all the large seat-cushions reupholstered, and getting word out to the entire family. Mayya’s sisters kept their views to themselves and her father left the matter in her mother’s hands. After all, these were her girls and marriage was women’s business.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"An innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Booth’s translation honours the elliptical rhythms of Arabic and the language’s rich literary heritage . . . Yet there is no doubt that this is a contemporary novel, insistent and alive . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"The great pleasure of reading Celestial Bodies is witnessing a novel argue, through the achieved perfection of its form, for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct. The ability to move freely through time, the privileged access to the wounded privacies of many characters, the striking diversity of human beings across a relatively narrow canvas, the shock waves as one generation heaves, like tectonic plates, against another, the secrets and lapses and repressions, at once intimate and historical, the power, indeed, of an investigation that is always political and always intimate — here is the novel being supremely itself, proving itself up to the job by changing not its terms of employment but the shape of the task.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"A rich, dense web of a novel . . . The chorus of voices that arises from these pages, at once harmonious and dissonant, constitutes nothing less than the assertion of the right to exist and to be recognized.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"The glimpses into a culture relatively little known in the West are fascinating.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"Ambitious, intense . . . With exhilarating results, Alharthi throws the reader into the midst of a tangled family drama in which unrequited love, murder, suicide, and adultery seem the rule rather than the exception . . . [Celestial Bodies] is all the more satisfying for the complexity of its tale.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"A richly layered, ambitious work that teems with human struggles and contradictions, providing fascinating insight into Omani history and society.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_6":"A book to win over the head and the heart in equal measure, worth lingering over. Interweaving voices and timelines are beautifully served by the pacing of the novel. Its delicate artistry draws us into a richly imagined community — opening out to tackle profound questions of time and mortality and disturbing aspects of our shared history. The style is a metaphor for the subject, subtly resisting clichés of race, slavery, and gender. The translation is precise and lyrical, weaving in the cadences of both poetry and everyday speech. Celestial Bodies evokes the forces that constrain us and those that set us free.","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Bettany Hughes","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Man Booker International Prize","OtherText_Review_7":"The novel is a beautifully achieved account of lives pulling at the edges of change. The writing is teasingly elliptical throughout and there is a kind of poetic understatement that draws the reader into the domestic settings and public tribulations of the three sisters . . . Celestial Bodies deftly undermines recurrent stereotypes about Arab language and cultures, but most importantly brings a distinctive and important new voice to world literature.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Irish Times","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"Man Booker International Prize","PrizeName_1":"A Kirkus Reviews Best Book","PrizeYear_0":"2019","PrizeYear_1":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-10-15","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Celestial Bodies
The first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize and a vivid and elegant tale of a family and a nation across decades.
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A highly readable, nuanced, credible picture of a country where ordinary people go about their lives treading around the regime, and sometimes bumping into it.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"BBC World Service","OtherText_Review_1":"Searing fiction by an anonymous dissident . . . A fierce indictment of life in the totalitarian North.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_2":"Smuggled out of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 25 years after being written, this pseudonymous collection covers the final years of the rule of Kim Il-sung. Depicting everyday citizens trying to make the best of a bad situation, The Accusation gives a human face to the people living under a brutal regime.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"These short works offer powerful insights into a world behind walls . . . 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The Accusation
A major publishing phenomenon, The Accusation by anonymous North Korean writer Bandi is the first piece of fiction to come out of North Korea.
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And now, some weeks later, I know I will never forget the grandfather, the son who is a father, the sister, or the girlfriend. They are here to stay in my mind, like those other fictional characters you never meet in real life but whom you would recognize on the street the minute you saw them. Their personalities are far from perfect, but because of that, you love them all the more for who they are.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Herman Koch, author of The Dinner","OtherText_Accolades_1":"A beautiful study of familial need and mess, in which the universal and the particular play footsie with each other. 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The first day presents the return of a ‘grandfather’ — who now spends time in his ‘old country’ for several months at a stretch — and his interactions with his two children: a professionally successful daughter who is also a divorced mother and estranged from her son, and a far less successful son with a family showing signs of strain under the pressures of parental care … The Family Clause ranges from the parodic to the sentimental to the tragic without ever hitting a false note. This flexibility of register is essential to a narrative about this web of relations, with its various embedded traumas, delights, and absurdities.","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Tabish Khair","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Times Literary Supplement","OtherText_Review_1":"Satisfying . . . Khemiri succeeds at creating an infectious sense of melancholia as the poisonous patriarch is forced to reckon with the truth. In a slow build of quotidian moments, Khemiri constructs a familiarly flawed universe that lays bare what it means to be human.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"This nuanced, dryly hilarious novel is a sharply observed window into modern family dynamics.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"Khemiri’s prose has a zing and bite stylishly served by Alice Menzies’ pacy, idiomatic translation.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Spectator","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeName_0":"National Book Award for Translated Literature","PrizeName_1":"Le prix Medicis du roman étranger","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-06-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
Ailton Krenak, renowned Indigenous activist, demonstrates that our current environmental crisis is rooted in society’s flawed concept of “humanity”.
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As she attempts to form friendships and assimilate in Britain, she can’t help but ruminate on the relationships that have been central to her life. Most prominent is her strong emotional bond with Bint Amir, a woman she always thought of as her grandmother, who passed away just after Zuhur left the Arabian Peninsula.\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAs the historical narrative of Bint Amir’s challenged circumstances unfurls in captivating fragments, so too does Zuhur’s isolated and unfulfilled present, one narrative segueing into another as time slips and dreams mingle with memories.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cem \u003eNarinjah (The Bitter Orange Tree) \u003c\/em\u003eis a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire, and female agency. It presents a mosaic portrait of one young woman’s attempt to understand the roots she has grown from, and to envisage an adulthood in which her own power and happiness might find the freedom necessary to bear fruit and flourish.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","EAN":"9781487007768","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487007768\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"oman;class dynamics;female friendships;female protagonist;immigration;belonging;identity;community;books in translation;international literature;creative writing","NumberOfPages":"224","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eIn probing history, challenging social status, questioning familial bonds and debts, Alharthi’s multilayered pages beautifully, achingly unveil the haunting aloneness of women’s experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Jennifer Croft, author of Homesick and co-winner with Olga Tokarczuk of the International Booker Prize for Flights","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"Booklist, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eA rich and powerful novel that showcases the interplay between memory and emigration and the precariousness of sisterhood in a world that encourages the domination of men, told in a sumptuous and incisive translation by Marilyn Booth.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Jennifer Croft, author of Homesick and co-winner with Olga Tokarczuk of the International Booker Prize for Flights","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eJokha Alharthi is a remarkable writer for whom my admiration grows with each work. Watching the lives of Zuhour and Bint Amir unfurl within \u003cem \u003eNarinjah \u003c\/em\u003ewas a pleasure, and Alharthi’s prose in the capable hands of translator Marilyn Booth is as clear and refreshing as a cool glass of water.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Sara Nović, author of America Is Immigrants","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eLyrical, elegiac, and poignant, a transcending read — like sitting by an open window at dusk as memories slip in, one by one, each radiating with life.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Akil Kumarasamy, author of Half Gods","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eNarinjah \u003c\/em\u003eblazes with the strength of generations of Omani women — from the charcoal makers of the Arab gulf to the international students of a British residence hall. This mesmerizing novel is an illuminating, important work, and Jokha Alharthi points her pen at some of the most harrowing circumstances facing women and girls across the world. I am grateful to Marilyn Booth for her translation of this exquisite book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author Sabrina \u0026amp; Corina","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJokha Alharthi's Celestial Bodies was first ever novel originally written in Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eShe was also the first Omani woman to have a novel translated into English.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThere has in incredible interest in immigrant and international stories, as demonstrated by the success of story collections by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Djamila Ibrahim, Irina Kovalyova, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ayelet Tsabari. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eFor fans of prize-winning literary fiction; stories of immigration, belonging, and identity; stories about and for women.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eA gorgeous and insightful story of longing … The bittersweet narrative, intuitively translated by Booth, is chock-full of indelible images … This solidifies Alharthi’s well-earned literary reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eAlharthi delivers an imaginative story. ... The slim novel is a bittersweet, non-linear exploration of social status and a young woman’s agency.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"TIME","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"TIME","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e[\u003cem \u003eNarinjah\u003c\/em\u003e] offers plenty of detail about Omani life between world wars. ... It makes for evocative reading, helped by Booth’s translation. ... In Alharthi’s world, it’s not only the future that holds promise; the past has possibility and opportunities for revision, too.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Joumana Khatib, New York Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eAs with her acclaimed novel \u003cem \u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e, Alharthi probes family relationships and picks at the frayed edges where the heart and society want different things. . . . Alharthi describes the Omani community and the family compound with sharp details, but her best renderings are of the characters’ interior lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Hadara","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Hadara","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes an extraordinary story of one young Omani woman building a life for herself in Britain.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2022-05-10","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes an extraordinary story of one young Omani woman building a life for herself in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Narinjah (The Bitter Orange Tree)
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes an extraordinary story of one young Omani woman building a life for herself in Britain.
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The Guardian of Amsterdam Street
Roma meets A Gentleman in Moscow in this vivid portrait of the twentieth century, witnessed by one boy from his self-imposed refuge in Mexico City.
