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{"id":6582726918203,"title":"Congotronic special hardcover edition","handle":"congotronic-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s \u003cem\u003eCongotronic\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the \"aural truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:33-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-13T13:07:33-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","Anansi International","By (author) Book Shane","pub date: 2014-09-27"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39403414880315,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781770899025","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Congotronic special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":1995,"weight":200,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781770899025","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23324463923259,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":2999,"width":2400,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":2999,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0969b2c0-7b1f-46bc-aa9a-a525a9aba98a.jpg?v=1678595587","width":2400}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s \u003cem\u003eCongotronic\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s anchoring series contains an apocryphal narrative grounded in the journey of the Middle Passage and an older mythic history from the West African epic of Sundiata. Here is a world poet of the Sonic Global South sheathed in a Northern Hemispheric glow suit, high “on Coltrane, on Zeus” but also on the old and new schools of Descartes, M.I.A., Cecil Taylor, Gilbert Ryle, Freud, and Jay-Z, among others — or as one poem puts it, the \"aural truths.\"\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Congotronic special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Shane Book's poetry collection Congotronic is limited to 50 copies.
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De Niro's Game
A-List edition of Rawi Hage's classic novel De Niro's Game, with a new introduction by Colm Toibin.
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He is also the translator of Gaétan Soucy’s novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Immaculate Conception\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, and the winner of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Translation Prize. \u003cem\u003eRavenscrag\u003c\/em\u003e, Lederhendler’s translation of a novel by Alain Farah, was published by Arachnide in April 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Awumey, Edem (CA)","Contributor_1":"Lederhendler, Lazer (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003eNominated for the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation and the ReLit Awards\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs a small child, Askia was forced, along with his family, to wander the African desert as if under a curse. First driven from their home by drought and hunger, they were then kept from the villages they passed through by the fear and suspicion of others, who did not want to see their \"dirty feet\" stay for too long.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eYears later, it seems Askia is destined to relive his family’s curse night after night as he roams the streets of Paris in his taxi. One evening, he picks up Olia, a young woman who claims to recognize his face, telling him that his features are similar to those of a man she photographed years ago. Had it been his father, the enigmatic Sidi Ben Sylla Mohammed? The father who migrated north long before he did; the father he has so often dreamt about; the father whom he aches to meet?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith Olia’s help, Askia sets out to retrace Sidi’s steps. But before he can embark on this new journey, he must first confront his violent past. 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Dirty Feet explores the nature of violence, confrontation and grants a powerful insight into the lives of those denounced to wander.","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Shannon Webb-Campbell","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Telegraph Journal","OtherText_Review_2":"Awumey adorns his book with short, vivid phrases that, at times, read like poems ... reveal[ing] ...","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Rosel Kim","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Montreal Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"... Awumey’s spare style and stark vision disrupts our complacent vision of the world we know; he challenges our belief in the universal progress of race relations ... Dirty Feet is rich in wisdom and allusion ...","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Donna Bailey Nurse","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"The writing is beautiful [and] leaves room for the imagination.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Ashliegh Gehl","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Herald de Paris","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A compelling novel that tells the story of one man's journey to retrace the steps of the mysterious, nomadic father who abandoned him years earlier.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeName_0":"Governor General's Literary Award: Translation","PrizeName_1":"ReLit Awards","PrizeName_2":"IMPAC Dublin Literary Award","PrizeYear_0":"2011","PrizeYear_1":"2012","PrizeYear_2":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2011-08-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A compelling novel that tells the story of one man's journey to retrace the steps of the mysterious, nomadic father who abandoned him years earlier.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Dirty Feet
A compelling novel that tells the story of one man's journey to retrace the steps of the mysterious, nomadic father who abandoned him years earlier.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487006471","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487006792","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770892361","BASICMainSubject":"FIC044000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Women","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNILOFAR SHIDMEHR\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, essayist, and scholar, and the author of six books in English and Farsi, including \u003cem\u003eBetween Lives\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eShirin and Salt Man\u003c\/em\u003e, a BC Book Prize finalist. She writes and delivers lectures on women’s rights, migration and diaspora, and social and political issues in Iran. A specialist in literature and cinema of modern Iran, she teaches in the Continuing Studies program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where she lives with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"FICTION \/ Women","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"FICTION \/ Literary","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"FICTION \/ Short Stories (single author)","BISACSubject_0":"FIC044000","BISACSubject_1":"FIC019000","BISACSubject_2":"FIC029000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNILOFAR SHIDMEHR\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, essayist, and scholar, and the author of six books in English and Farsi, including \u003cem\u003eBetween Lives\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eShirin and Salt Man\u003c\/em\u003e, a BC Book Prize finalist. She writes and delivers lectures on women’s rights, migration and diaspora, and social and political issues in Iran. 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A touching, fascinating read.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Sahar Delijani","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Iran is a complicated country with thousands of years of history. In Divided Loyalties, with a deft hand, Nilofar Shidmehr takes us through the suffering of its people over the last four decades. An important book that sheds light on how a people can survive their darkest years.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Musharraf Ali Farooqi","OtherText_Accolades_2":"These complex and intimate stories of Iranian women are like nothing I’ve ever read before. Nilofar Shidmehr’s perspective is wise, unique, and compelling.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Farzana Doctor","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDivided Loyalties\u003c\/em\u003e weaves rich and complex stories spanning decades of Iran’s contemporary history and provides an intimate glimpse of lives scattered across different worlds. The stories of the characters in these pages speak to the universal experience of love, loss, and longing.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Payam Akhavan","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF IRANIAN REVOLUTION IN FEBRUARY:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eTimed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, we expect considerable media attention for this book in February 2019. (The Iranian people overthrew the last Shah of the Persian monarchy on February 11, 1979, and brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power. Iran voted by national referendum to become an Islamic Republic on April 1, 1979.)\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST SHORT FICTION COLLECTION BY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eNilofar Shidmehr has been compared to great activist poets Dionne Brand and Pablo Neruda for her direct and unflinching gaze as she writes about social and political issues of race and gender. She has published two works of poetry and verse; this is her first story collection.\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\u003eINTEREST IN EXPERIENCE OF PERSIAN WOMEN \/ BOOK CLUB POTENTIAL:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIn the 2000s, the success of memoirs such as Marjane Satrapi’s \u003cem\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/em\u003e, Azar Nafisi’s \u003cem\u003eReading Lolita in Tehran\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePrisoner of Tehran\u003c\/em\u003e by Marina Nemat kindled significant North American interest in stories of women’s lives in Iran. Fiction by an Iranian-Canadian writer will appeal to book clubs who loved those memoirs.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eI arrive in Tehran two days after my brother called to inform me about my father’s death. “A car hit Papa,” Milaad said, his voice cracking like phone static. “It happened close to his home. He died on the spot. The driver fled the scene — we couldn’t find him. There is also something else, which I’ll tell you when I’ll see you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThankfully, Milaad accompanies Maman to meet me at the airport. Maman and I had a fight on the phone six months ago and we haven’t talked since. That was the night I came back from Paris, the last place I saw my father alive. Our squabble doesn’t matter now. I am here to be with my mother during the forty-day mourning period. I might even stay longer — for six months, a year, or, who knows, the rest of my life — if Maman and I can get along now that the source of our separation is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor does it matter that my mother wrongly accused me of siding with my father. In truth, Papa and I had a row at the end of our trip and he accused me of the exactly the same thing: of supporting her. This is what our parents did to me and Milaad all our lives. Each wanted us in their camp when they fought with each other. And once they made peace, they would divide their children between them. Milaad was hers and I was his.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy situation was much worse than my brother’s during the times when our parents quarreled. As a girl, I was supposed to side with my mother. This wouldn’t have been difficult, if her true reason for being angry was that my father was a miser. We lived very close to poverty because the only money that came into the home was from our mother’s meager salary. Papa used all of his money to buy property. However, the real reason behind my mother’s anger was to control my father and keep him, like Milaad, under her thumb. I believed my father should have his independence as much as I wanted to have mine. I wanted to have freedom of association — to like, love, and assemble with whomever I chose, including my aunt Raazi, Papa’s younger sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntering the arrivals area and dragging my suitcase behind me, I look around for my mother and see her, along with Milaad, walking toward me. In her black winter coat, slacks, and wimple hijab, she looks slim and miserable. I speed up and we meet halfway. She throws herself into my embrace and wails. “You see, Maana, your mother is a widow now.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople standing nearby look at us with compassion. “Sorry for your loss,” they whisper as they pass. The other passengers laugh with joy as they reunite with their loved ones. Their families, dressed mostly in bright colors, shower them with flowers and kisses. I pass Maman a clean napkin I’ve saved for my own crying and hold her until her sobbing subsides.\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 deeply felt portrait of a particular place and its people . . . The stark, protean beauty of Shidmehr’s writing recalls the shape-shifting work of Denis Johnson’s collection Jesus’ Son . . . Shidmehr’s is a necessary, feminist voice that is at once defiant and humbling.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"Showcases an impressive range.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_2":"Divided Loyalties offers an in-depth view into the complex traditions, taboos, and social mores of Iranian society from the 1970s to the present day.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_3":"Divided Loyalties should be required reading.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Refinery29","OtherText_Review_4":"Shidmehr’s sentences are complex and packed with information, at once crystal clear and highly nuanced, metaphoric and ruthlessly specific, held together by powerfully resonant central images that reverberate retroactively and knit together many levels of reference and meaning … These are stories of ordinary lives, starkly rendered and held in tender suspension, often between a ‘home’ which is beloved yet toxic, and an ‘away’ that is lonely and insulting in its oppressiveness. Panoramic yet intimate, they enact a kind of investigative surgery, each one plunging beneath the surface of a situation and penetrating it to the cellular level before re-emerging only a few minutes or hours later to reveal the context surrounding what has come to pass.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"EVENT Magazine","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-02-05","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Divided Loyalties
A collection that spans four decades to present the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada.
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Zalika Reid-Benta is a masterful storyteller with a light touch, a photographic recall, and a pitch-perfect ear for the ephemera we’d like to think of as youthful, but just can’t seem to shake. This is an unforgettable debut.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Paul Beatty","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Zalika Reid-Benta announces herself as an enormous voice for the coming decade (and one that is desperately needed). Not all must-read books are this enjoyable.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Gary Shteyngart","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Each story in Frying Plantain is achingly poignant, insightful, and funny; each a gem unto itself. Ms. Reid-Benta’s fully sympathetic protagonist, Kara Davis, is a girl who belongs to neither Canada nor Jamaica, despite the fact that both places are ‘home.’ Her family — loving, flawed, and wickedly at odds with one another — all demand her loyalty, and her loyal friends aren’t friends at all. As a collection, these stunning stories create a multi-faceted jewel of a book.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Src":"Binnie Kirshenbaum","OtherText_Accolades_3":"Zalika Reid-Benta’s first book — by turns effortless, vivid, funny, sad, and genuinely like being there — is as shiny as they come. Her spot-on capture of youthful aspiration, folly, and how family members tend to understand one another only in fragments make these stories a real pleasure — full of recognition, humour, and keenly observed lives in the here and now. Frying Plantain, a window into the world of growing upward and onward inside and outside family ties, is an absolute gem.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Janice Galloway","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN EXCITING EMERGING AUTHOR WITH STRONG CONNECTIONS IN THE U.S. AND CANADIAN LITERARY COMMUNITIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is Zalika Reid-Benta’s first published book, but she has already made a name for herself as a writer. The author has an M.F.A. from Columbia University, where she was mentored by Paul Beatty, author of the Booker Prize–winning novel \u003cem\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/em\u003e; Victor LaValle, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Changeling\u003c\/em\u003e; Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Scenic Route\u003c\/em\u003e; and Gary Shteyngart, author of \u003cem\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLake Success\u003c\/em\u003e. In Canada, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet George Elliott Clarke named her a “Writer to Watch.” At the Banff Writing Studio, she worked with Greg Hollingshead and Janice Galloway, and she became close to Caroline Adderson.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTRONG INTEREST IN STORIES ABOUT DIASPORA COMMUNITIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRecent hits such as David Chariandy’s \u003cem\u003eBrother\u003c\/em\u003e, Mohsin Hamid’s \u003cem\u003eExit West\u003c\/em\u003e, and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s \u003cem\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/em\u003e have shown that there is a strong interest in stories set among diaspora communities.\u003cem\u003e Frying Plantain\u003c\/em\u003e’s evocation of the Canadian Caribbean community is another strong contender in this field.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eFrom “Pig Head”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e On my first visit to Jamaica I saw a pig’s severed head. My grandmother’s sister Auntie had asked me to grab two bottles of Ting from the icebox and when I walked into the kitchen and pulled up the icebox lid there it was, its blood splattered and frozen thick on the bottles beneath it, its brown tongue lolling out from between its clenched teeth, the tip making a small dip in the ice water.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e My cousins were in the next room so I clamped my palm over my mouth to keep from screaming. They were all my age or younger, and during the five days I’d already been in Hanover they’d all spoken easily about the chickens they strangled for soup and they’d idly thrown stones at alligators for sport, side-eyeing me when I was too afraid to join in. I wanted to avoid a repeat of those looks, so I bit down on my finger to push the scream back down my throat.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e Only two days before I’d squealed when Rodney, who was ten like me, had wrung a chicken’s neck without warning; the jerk of his hands and the quick snap of the bone had made me fall back against the coops behind me. He turned to me after I’d silenced myself and his mouth and nose were twisted up as if he was deciding whether he was irritated with me or contemptuous or just amused.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Ah wah?” he asked. “Yuh nuh cook soup in Canada?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Sure we do,” I said, my voice a mumble. “The chicken is just dead first.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e He didn’t respond, and he didn’t say anything about it in front of our other cousins, but soon after they all treated me with a newfound delicacy. When the girls played Dandy Shandy with their friends they stopped asking me to be in the middle and when all of them climbed trees to pluck ripe mangoes, they no longer hung, loose-limbed, from the branches and tried to convince me to clamber up and join them. For the first three days of my visit, they’d at least tease me, broad smiles stretching their cheeks, and yell down, “This tree frighten yuh like how duppy frighten yuh?” Then they’d let leaves fall from their hands onto my hair and laugh when I tried to pick them out of my plaits. I’d fuss and grumble, piqued at the taunting but grateful for the inclusion, for being thought tough enough to handle the same mockery they inflicted on each other. But after the chicken, they didn’t goad me anymore and they only approached me for games like tag, for games they thought Canadian girls could stomach.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“What’s taking you so long?” My mother came up behind me and instead of waiting for me to answer, leaned forward and peered into the icebox, swallowing hard as she did. “Great,” she whispered. “Are you going to be traumatized by this?”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I didn’t quite know what she meant — but I felt like the right answer was no, so I shook my head. My mother was like my cousins. I hadn’t seen her butcher any animals, but back home she stepped on spiders without flinching, she cussed out men who tried to reach for her in the street, and I couldn’t bear her scoffing at me for screaming at a pig’s head.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Eloise!” Nana called. My grandmother came into the kitchen from the backyard and stood next to us, her hands on her hips. The deep arch in her back made her breasts and belly protrude, and the way she stood with her legs apart reminded me of a pigeon.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I hear Auntie call out she want a drink from the fridge. That there is the freezer yuh nuh want that. Yuh know wah Bredda put in there? Kara canna see that, she nuh raise up for it.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “I closed the lid,” said my mother. “Anyway, it was a pig’s head. It’s not like she saw the pig get slaughtered. She’s fine.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Kara’s a soft one. She canna handle these things.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I felt my mother take a deep breath in and I suddenly became aware of all the exposed knives in the kitchen and wondered if there was any way I could hide them without being noticed. We were only here for ten days and my mother and Nana had already gotten into two fights — one in the airport on the day we landed, the other two nights after — and Auntie had threatened to set the dogs on them if they didn’t calm down.\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Mi thought Canada was supposed fi be a civilized place, how yuh two fight like the dogs them? Cha.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e I wondered if all daughters fought with their mothers this way when they grew up and started to tear up just thinking about it. Nana looked at me.\u003cbr\/\u003e “See? She ah cry about the head.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “It’s not about the head,” said my mother. “She just cries over anything.”\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Like I say. She a soft chile.” \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":"Frying Plantain . . . brims with wit and compassion.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_1":"Reid-Benta is a natural storyteller . . . This splendid collection marks her as a writer to watch.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_2":"These stories are readable and relatable. They hit the sweet spot between having something to say and still being the kind of read you can immerse yourself in, a rare combination.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"Frying Plantain deftly chips away at white dismissals of privilege, obscuring the lines between short story and novel . . . It documents a unique and complex cultural space that’s under threat, while acknowledging the challenges of living a hyphenated life. It reminds us that individuals remain bound to their cultural experience — their quirks and fixations stubbornly wrapped up as metaphorical leftovers.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_4":"Runner-up","PrizeCodeText_5":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_6":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeCode_3":"02","PrizeCode_4":"02","PrizeCode_5":"05","PrizeCode_6":"03","PrizeName_0":"Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Danuta Gleed Literary Award","PrizeName_2":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_3":"Trillium Book Award","PrizeName_4":"Forest of Reading Evergreen Award","PrizeName_5":"Toronto Book Awards","PrizeName_6":"A CBC Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2020","PrizeYear_2":"2019","PrizeYear_3":"2019","PrizeYear_4":"2019","PrizeYear_6":"2019","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-06-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Frying Plantain
Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates Black identity in a predominantly white society.
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{"id":6983133429819,"title":"Her First Palestinian","handle":"her-first-palestinian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSaeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-09-13T13:43:33-04:00","created_at":"2022-09-13T13:37:47-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Short Stories","Astoria","By (author) Teebi Saeed","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2022-08-02"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40780122062907,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010874","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Her First Palestinian - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":250,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487010874","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40780122161211,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487010881","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Her First Palestinian - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487010881","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_973bd6a0-4f2e-4795-ab72-d5d9922dab18.jpg?v=1700977892"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_973bd6a0-4f2e-4795-ab72-d5d9922dab18.jpg?v=1700977892","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23994429505595,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_973bd6a0-4f2e-4795-ab72-d5d9922dab18.jpg?v=1700977892"},"aspect_ratio":0.786,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_973bd6a0-4f2e-4795-ab72-d5d9922dab18.jpg?v=1700977892","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSaeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Teebi’s prose is crisp and calmly civilized.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eIf humanising Palestinians without purposefully tugging on heartstrings is what Teebi set out to do, he has accomplished his goal with aplomb. 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Her First Palestinian
Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.
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This is the literary quest undertaken by Monia Mazigh in her novel about revolutions and families, about the Bread Riots of Tunisia and the Arab Spring. How do women come of age as dissidents? The difficult secrets shared by mothers and daughters are universal in this thoroughly imagined narrative in which a Canadian story is, necessarily, a story of the world.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Kim Echlin, author of Under the Visible Life","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is Monia Mazigh’s second work of fiction with Anansi. Her first, \u003cem\u003eMirrors and Mirages\u003c\/em\u003e, was widely praised for the authentic depiction of the lives of Muslim women.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect for book clubs, this novel weaves together the experiences of two women: a mother and her Canadian-born daughter set against the backdrop of political chaos and revolution without striking a false note. The novel offers a glimpse into what it’s like to live inside a revolution, specifically, the Bread Riots in Tunisia in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia in 2010, which resonated across the Arab world and is considered the first uprising of the Arab Spring.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThis subject matter is timely and important and will undoubtedly lend itself to the intelligent, politically engaged female reader.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eHope Has Two Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to those with an interest in the history of the Arab world and immigration politics; fans of multicultural, multi-generational narratives; and fans of literature in translation.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThe two girls were called Reem and Farah. They giggled to themselves as they glanced at one another, flickering their eyelids. One had her hair done pageboy style, slicked down, and a button nose, light-coloured skin, and slightly slanted eyes that made her look like a cat about to pounce. The other was constantly adjusting her abundant chestnut hair with the back of her hand. Her black eyes accentuated the whiteness of her skin; a few reddish blotches marked her oval face. Reem and Farah looked me over carefully when they saw me come in with Donia. Even before we were introduced, I knew they wouldn’t like me. My ripped jeans, my multiple earrings worn in a line along my earlobe, the high forehead I’d inherited from my mom, and my blues eyes, just like my dad’s: everything about me told them just how foreign I was. Even my brown and hopelessly curly hair that stood out in corkscrew-like tufts from my head — another hand-me-down from Mom and a source of wonder, of compliments, and admiration during my childhood in Canada — was not enough for them to see me as a Tunisian. Me, the daughter born of the marriage of Nadia the Tunisian and Alex the Canadian. In their eyes, I was some kind of strange mix, a hybrid, a monstrosity produced by the meeting of two distinct worlds but clearly belonging to neither.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Monia Mazigh's second novel is an engaging book in which choices abound for young Muslim women.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"The Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_1":"Both readable and relevant, especially since the reverberations of the Jasmine Revolution are still being felt today.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"An important work of fiction.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"Monia Mazigh’s latest novel takes readers through a cycle of hope, uprising, despair and hope again in a story of two girls awakened by civil unrest.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Hope Has Two Daughters adds significantly to a growing body of literature by and about Muslim women and sheds fresh light on a country still experiencing its own coming of age.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2017-01-28","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Hope Has Two Daughters
Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.
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However Far Away
An evocative and sweeping family saga about love, loss, and acceptance—set against the backdrop of a traditional Sikh wedding.
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I dissolve in the mouths of the mountains of Sinai.’ This is a richly imagined, vitally important book.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Steven Heighton, Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author of The Waking Comes Late","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eYara El-Ghadban is an emerging writer in North America and is now being published in English for the first time.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe novel was acclaimed when it was originally published in French.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eFor fiction and nonfiction audiences alike.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\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":"By remaining in the liminal space of coma, I Am Ariel Sharon avoids partisan and political blind spots and addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a perspective that history and analysis all-too-often tend to exclude: the humanity of a man, with all the horror and the light it encompasses. Here resides the great intelligence of Yara El-Ghadban’s book, which, taking up and going beyond Spinoza’s famous formula, reaffirms that literature can at once laugh, cry, hate, and understand.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Lettres québécoises","OtherText_Review_1":"Yara El-Ghadban paints a picture of a country devastated by an ethical shortcoming that affects everyone, Palestinians and Israelis. Through this chorus of female voices and through the character of a nurse who reads to the patient, she calls for wisdom.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"TelQuel","OtherText_Review_2":"[Yara El-Ghadban’s] prose forces us to look anew. Readers accustomed to the repetitive stories of textbooks and the media will be transported into the eye of the hurricane and enveloped in the close proximity and conflagration of war … and carried away by a pen that combines history and feeling with extraordinary panache. Don’t wait. Read this book now.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Le Journal des Alternatives","OtherText_Review_3":"One can only bow before the sensibility and striving for objectivity of someone who writes with extraordinary fluidity and who the stage would do well to discover.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"05","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeName_0":"Blue Metropolis Literary Diversity Award","PrizeName_1":"Prix Français Hors-Concours","PrizeName_2":"Prix Hors-Concours des Lycéens","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2020-11-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
I Am Ariel Sharon
I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.
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I Hid My Voice
The story of a four-year-old boy who cannot speak and the shame it brings upon his family in modern-day Iran, based on real events.
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It is heartening to see essential tools (such as the “Will to Intervene”) being offered up in practical and meaningful ways, when so many have turned their back on them, and so, on our responsibilities as global citizens.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Roméo A. Dallaire","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Beyond Payam Akhavan's impressive professional and academic distinctions as a former UN prosecutor lies a deep and enduring dedication to the pursuit of justice on the international stage. In Search of a Better World is a revelation of the some of the darkest moments of the world’s recent history and a vital and enduring odyssey of hope for the future. An essential work on the human rights struggles of our times.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Payam Akhavan has produced a remarkable work — a unique combination of fascinating biography, moving descriptions of human suffering inflicted by malicious war criminals, and recognition of the resilience, courage, and dignity of so many of the victims. This book will be appreciated by all who understand and reject the evils of irrational discrimination and applaud the efforts of those determined to end it.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Justice Richard J. Goldstone","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePayam Akhavan is a highly sought after expert on human rights law. He is a go-to expert for commentary and is perfectly poised to write about and comment on ongoing human rights struggles.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe author has international contacts, having had academic postings at Oxford, University of Paris, European University Institute, and Yale Law School. He has also been featured on the BBC and in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ePrevious Massey Lectures have received coverage in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/em\u003e, and on NPR.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe lecture and book will receive a national tour and promotion through national media. The Massey Lectures airs on three select U.S. stations: KUOW Seattle, WBEZ Chicago, MPBN Maine.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ePerfect for those interested in international law and global human rights issues. Also, the Massey Lectures work well in the institutional and IB markets.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Search of a Better World\u003c\/em\u003e will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Such an illustrious career, played out against the backdrop of some of humanity’s darkest moments, makes for a revelatory, heartbreaking, and often challenging narrative.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"[Akhavan’s] standing as the 2017 Massey Lecturer [is] not only deserved but overdue. The lecture’s companion book, In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey is more than a treatise on rights: it’s also effectively an autobiography, showing how a crusade with global implications had its roots in personal experience.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An essential analysis of the major human rights struggles of our times by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer and former UN prosecutor.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-09-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"The CBC Massey Lectures","ShortDescription":"An essential analysis of the major human rights struggles of our times by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer and former UN prosecutor.","Subtitle":"A Human Rights Odyssey","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
In Search of A Better World
An essential analysis of the major human rights struggles of our times by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer and former UN prosecutor.
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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.
