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While Cho’s focus is on South Korean culture, the normalisation of violence and harassment in the book seems all too familiar.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“The novel’s virtue lies in its broad social impact . . . To read the book is to imagine being a restive, aggrieved millennial and to trace [Kim Jiyoung’s] path through everyday misogyny.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“This tale has immediate resonance . . . Cho’s matter-of-fact delivery underscores the pervasive gender imbalance, while just containing the empathic rage.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 has much in common with Han Kang’sThe Vegetarian.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Los Angeles Review of Books","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“[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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTelegraph (U.K.)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Telegraph (U.K.)","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“A clear-eyed look at damage done.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStraits Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Straits Times","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“In this fine — and beautifully translated — biography of a fictional Korean woman, we encounter the real experiences of many women around the world.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpectator (U.K.)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","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":"mobi","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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Although the book is set in Paris, Chisholm demonstrates how his stories of struggle have universal appeal.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eA Waiter in Paris\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating read which plunges you into the manic and hidden world of Parisian restaurants; it’s vivid, immersive and unforgettable, and also demonstrates that the extreme distance between the rich and the poor has never gone away.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShiny New Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"Shiny New Books","OtherText_Review_11":"\u003cp\u003e“A no-holds-barred memoir … [Chisholm] deftly uses the Parisian restaurant as a microcosm for France as a whole, with immigrants, people of color and blue-collar workers at the bottom of the food chain.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmithsonian Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Smithsonian Magazine","OtherText_Review_12":"\u003cp\u003e“Chisholm’s fortitude in the face of hot-headed, violent chefs and infernal fourteen-hour days without breaks in pursuit of his goal is admirable, and makes for compelling reading. An entertaining and enlightening memoir.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Times Literary Supplement","OtherText_Review_13":"\u003cp\u003e“This tough little book documents the experience of being a foreign worker, lost in the understrata of the often exploitative industry from which we benefit. It seems glib to compare it to Orwell when it's more universal, or Bourdain when it doesn't glorify the mess. Not exactly a jolly read, but important.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_14":"\u003cp\u003e“Through Chisholm's punchy prose, readers will be taken through his whirlwind career filled with angry knife-wielding chefs, demanding customers, squalid living conditions and panic attacks in the Pass.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Salon","OtherText_Review_15":"\u003cp\u003e“Chisholm’s story is immersive and often thrilling. … He’s a fine writer.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Wall Street Journal","OtherText_Review_16":"\u003cp\u003e“A portrait of Paris is painted by a waiter in this candid memoir that forces you to take off your rose-colored glasses to see the complicated truth of the city. … As he exposes the realities behind a Parisian restaurant’s ‘luxurious calm,’ he exposes the city of love as well.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTown \u0026 Country\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Town \u0026 Country","OtherText_Review_17":"\u003cp\u003e“Ah, Paris gastronomie magnifique and … insane shit going on behind the scenes. \u003cem\u003eA Waiter in Paris\u003c\/em\u003e charts Edward Chisholm’s jaw-dropping experiences while serving tables in the French capital, a demi-monde of sadistic managers, thieves, fighting for tips and drug dealers. Seems like not much has changed since George Orwell worked the same beat.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Evening Standard","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus (starred review)","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“This astonishing book describes a cruel, feral existence and is worthy of standing on the shelf next to George Orwell’s \u003cem\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London\u003c\/em\u003e as another classic about human exploitation. With this difference. Orwell was an Old Etonian playing at being destitute. Chisholm’s account of the fight for survival rings more wholly true.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Daily Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“The beauty of Paris is stripped, yet miraculously upheld, as I descended into Chisholm’s engrossing account of a Paris I’d never imagined.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Miramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“This is not your travel agent’s Paris.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“We are always hungry for stories from behind the ever-swinging door that separates the calm of a restaurant from the hot temperatures and hot tempers of the kitchen. Edward Chisholm’s brilliant memoir shows us the behind-the-scenes chaos, but also lets us tour nocturnal Paris and the strange characters he meets. This is a fascinating book, full of anecdotes that would sound far-fetched in a work of fiction, but that are all absolutely true.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWoman \u0026 Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Woman \u0026 Home","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“Chisholm brings the restaurant world to life as he relates the stress, pressure, and anxiety felt by all the workers. The long hours, the competition among the waiters, the petty grudges, and the poor treatment by supervisors are all exposed. Most poignant are his coworkers’ stories: they share their hopes and dreams with him.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Library Journal","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“You’re invited to go on a wild journey into the dark side of Paris . . . a world of refugees, exiles, dreamers, sadistic and abusive managers, long hours, and, strangely enough, malnutrition . . . If you’ve ever carried plates in a restaurant, you will love it, and if you’ve ever eaten in a restaurant, especially a Parisian one, you need to read this book.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadio New Zealand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Radio New Zealand","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“In what could be the \u003cem\u003eKitchen Confidential\u003c\/em\u003e for Generation Z, this memoir chronicles the underbelly of one of the (if not THE) food capitals of the world, as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living. Certainly, one dreams of cooking, let alone eating, in Paris. But to work in the city’s ruthless restaurant industry means dealing with inhumane hours, little to no sleep, aggressive landlords, sadistic managers, low wages, and meals consisting of little more than bread and cigarettes.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFortune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Fortune","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“In time, Chisholm sees that waiting in Paris is not so much a profession as a job that makes escape exceptionally difficult, but by then, he has assembled sufficient tales of drama, trickery, backstabbing, and camaraderie to plot a breakout. Leaving is one thing, avoiding being sucked back another, but with this excellent book he stands a chance. It’s also a sharp reminder that a restaurant is so much more than a room full of tables, but it’s better to not pick at what lies beyond the illusion of culinary sophistication.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrong Words\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"Strong Words","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA brilliant portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"epub","PublicationDate":"2022-08-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA brilliant portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
A Waiter in Paris
A brilliant portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light.
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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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“The glimpses into a culture relatively little known in the West are fascinating.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“A richly layered, ambitious work that teems with human struggles and contradictions, providing fascinating insight into Omani history and society.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBettany Hughes, \u003cem\u003eMan Booker International Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Bettany Hughes","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Man Booker International Prize","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“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.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","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":"mobi","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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Autopsy of a Boring Wife
The hysterically funny tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband is having an affair because, he says, she bores him.
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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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His work has strongly focused on his own family history, as well as supporting other Indigenous writers with the two anthologies he has edited. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnansi is using the beautifully illustrated cover from the Quebec edition, with details used for interior illustrations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWinner of the 2020 Prix France-Québec; winner of the 2021 Combat nationale des livres (“Battle of the Books,” the French-language equivalent of Canada Reads); winner of the 2020 VLEEL Award; shortlisted for the 2020 Jacques La Carrière Award.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e was a bestseller in French-language Canada in 2020 and has sold over 100,000 copies. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor is Innu from Mashteuiatsh. 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A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community.
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She has given several interviews and talks on being a trans woman in marketing. 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Due to its highly theoretical and philosophical nature, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e will undoubtedly find its way into many a college syllabus. However, anyone interested in queer history, theory, the evolution of feminism, and the dangers of AI will find something of interest in this novel and it is accessible and interesting enough that it could very well find a wider audience as well.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWest Trade Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"West Trade Review","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“In this intelligent and rather audacious ‘autobiographical science fiction novel,’ which pushes many boundaries and preconceptions, Chris Bergeron sensitively portrays the delicate journey of a transgender woman who tries to assert her ‘validity’ in a highly formatted universe, a dystopian world plagued by health and ecological crises that are all too easy to imagine. Canada has given us a queen of SF: Margaret Atwood. Chris Bergeron does not need to shy away from the comparison.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eL'Obs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"L'Obs","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“A superb and moving novel. \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive and didactic, esoteric and activist novel, which uses literature as a key to open up imaginations, activate empathy, and disarm preconceived ideas.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eElle France\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Elle France","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“Quebec literature is fascinating, and Chris Bergeron confirms this with \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e, a delightful identity thriller.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTêtu Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Têtu Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“From self-confessions to confessions to the machine, a revolution is underway … An identity thriller written with brilliance and finesse.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublic Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Public Magazine","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“Brimming with references to popular culture, from \u003cem\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e, and including Sylvie Vartan and Cirque du Soleil, and benefiting from an enlightened view of society and a formidable sense of expression, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e transports us about thirty years into the future … While [her] first novel offers a fine philosophical reflection on society, Chris Bergeron considers it more as a cry from the heart.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Devoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Le Devoir","OtherText_Review_8":"\u003cp\u003e“A gripping identity thriller where autofiction meets science fiction … With her sharp vision, [Bergeron] imagined this dystopia set in 2045, which is chillingly realistic.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Presse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"La Presse","OtherText_Review_9":"\u003cp\u003e“Chris Bergeron signs a novel full of sensitivity about the life of a transgender woman in a dystopian world that is not so unimaginable ... 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Valid
A work of queer autofiction and a speculative look at our dark future, Valid is the story of a trans woman who leads her own revolution.
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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.
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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. 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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. . . . 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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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Richly documented and imbued with deep angst about this supreme urban creation.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Venice is indeed unique but it stands for all cities in this eloquent, furious blast against the commodification of our planet and the relentless destruction of human communities by the mentality of markets.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Roger Crowley, author of City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas","OtherText_Accolades_2":"Settis shows how the tragedy of Venice could happen to any city which has a past. 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If Venice Dies
This eloquent book by the internationally renowned art historian Salvatore considers a new debate about Venice.
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This strikingly original work moves from political themes that wholly consume us today, such as the ways in which democracies can so easily become totalitarian states; to the deeply personal, in intimate recollections of Arendt’s famous lovers and friends, including Heidegger, Benjamin, de Beauvoir, and Sartre; and to wider moral deconstructions of what it means to be human and what it means to be humane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Love and Tyranny \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to life a Hannah Arendt for our days, a timeless intellectual whose investigations into the nature of evil and of love are eerily and urgently relevant half a century later.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487008130","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487008130\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","MetaKeywords":"amor mundi;Stalinism;violence;responsibility;forgiveness;xenophobia;autocracy;democracy collapse;political refugee;Cold War;heinrich Blucher;Kurt Blumenfeld;Bertolt Brecht;Karl Jaspers;Hans Jonas;Mary McCarthy;Anne Mendelsohn Weil;Gerson Scholem;Rahel Varnhagen;German Jewish","NumberOfPages":"272","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Love and Tyranny\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the most important thinkers of the last century. 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In what world is something like the Holocaust even possible?\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah links love for the world, \u003cem\u003eamor mundi\u003c\/em\u003e, to responsibility, reflection, and judgement. A love that presupposes reflection over one’s own actions and an understanding of their consequences. In this approach, there are parallels to her thoughts on evil. Indifference can, according to Hannah, be fertile ground for evil, and the opposite of indifference is reflection. As a result, everyone has a responsibility to reflect on their own actions, a responsibility to choose, a responsibility not to simply obey orders and follow the crowd.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eYet the argument Hannah would come to call the \u003cem\u003ebanality of evil\u003c\/em\u003e aroused strong disgust and anger in many of her contemporaries. Hannah’s description of Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, as an unimaginative bureaucrat who was simply doing his job shocked the world. Critics saw Hannah’s argument as a diminishment of Eichmann’s guilt, and the book was slated everywhere. Friends and colleagues turned their backs on her. In an infamous interview with Günter Gaus on West German TV, just after the publication of \u003cem\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), Hannah is asked whether she wishes she had never written the book. Does she believe that, despite all the negative reactions — all the hate — she did the right thing by writing the book the way she did?\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah, a middle-aged woman by the time of the interview, listens to Gaus’s question with a frown. She is wearing a dark dress, and her once-black hair, though thick as ever, is flecked with grey. She has one leg nonchalantly crossed over the other, her dark eyes guarded yet alert, and she is holding a cigarette in one hand. Gaus, clean shaven in a white shirt and thick rimmed glasses, seems almost breathless as he waits for her reply.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eHannah leans back in her armchair, studies Gaus intently, and takes a deep drag on her cigarette before she speaks. Her answer paraphrases Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I’s motto, \u003cem\u003efiat iustitia, et pereat mundus: fiat veritas, et pereat mundus\u003c\/em\u003e — let truth be done, though the world may perish. She raises her free hand and points at Gaus, as though to stress the importance of her words: “The truth must be told, regardless of the consequences of that truth.” A worthy motto for someone who put their life on the line on more than one occasion in their steadfast belief in what is true and right.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSince the 2016 U.S. election, Hannah Arendt and her works have experienced a major rise in popularity. Her writings on how democracies collapse into autocracies and why populations support totalitarian governments have found an interested audience as authoritarians take power across the globe. In the months following the election, \u003cem\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/em\u003e was selling at sixteen times its normal rate and was selling out at bookstores around the world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt’s important not to understate what an iconic figure Hannah Arendt has become. 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On Love and Tyranny
In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt.
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It falls on the thatch, concealing the moss and the mouse damage, smoothing out the undulations, filling in the hollows and slips, melting where it touches the bricks of the chimney. It settles on the plants and bare soil in the front garden and forms a perfect mound on top of the rotten gatepost, as though shaped from the inside of a teacup. It hides the roof of the chicken coop, and those of the privy and the old dairy, leaving a dusting across the workbench and floor where the window was broken long ago. In the vegetable garden at the back, the snow slides through the rips in the plastic of the polytunnel, chills the onion sets four inches underground and shrivels the new shoots of the swiss chard. Only the head of the last winter cabbage refuses to succumb, the interior leaves curled green and strong, waiting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the high double bed up the left staircase, Dot lies beside her adult daughter, Jeanie, who is gently snoring. Something different about the light in the room has woken Dot and she can’t get back to sleep. She gets out of the bed — floorboards cold, air colder — and puts on her dressing gown and slippers. The dog — Jeanie’s dog — a biscuit-coloured lurcher who sleeps on the landing with her back to the chimney breast, raises her head, enquiring about the early hour as Dot passes, lowering it when she gets no answer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDownstairs in the kitchen, Dot jabs at the embers in the range with the poker and shoves in a ball of paper, some kindling and a log. There is a pain. Behind her left eye. Between her left eye and her temple. Does the place have a name? She needs to go to the optician, get her eyes checked, but then what? How will she pay for new glasses? She needs to take her prescription to the chemist, but she is worried about the cost. The light is wrong down here, too. Lowing? Owing? Glowing? She touches her temple as though to locate the pain and sees through the curtains, in the gap where they don’t quite meet, that it is snowing. It is the twenty-eighth of April.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer movements must have roused the dog again because now there is a scratching at the door at the bottom of the left staircase and Dot reaches out to unlatch it. She watches her hand grasping the wrought-iron, the liver spots and crosshatching seeming peculiar, unlike anything she’s seen before: the mechanics of her fingers, the way the skin on her knuckles stretches over bone, bending around the handle. The articulation is alien — the hand of an imposter. The effort of pushing on the tiny plate with her thumb seems impossible, a bodily weariness worse even than when her twins were three months old and didn’t sleep at the same time, or the terrible year after they turned twelve. But with great concentration she presses and the latch lifts. The dog pokes her snout through, the rest of her body following. She whimpers and licks Dot’s left hand where it hangs against her thigh, pushes nose into palm, making the hand swing of its own accord, a pendulum. The pain increases and Dot worries that the dog might wake Jeanie with her whining, Jeanie asleep in the right-hand dip in the double mattress, first made by her husband, Frank, long dead, and on the rare occasions when her children were out of the house, by that other unmentionable-at-home man, who is too long for that old short bed so he cannot stretch out, and then hollowed further by Jeanie even though she is a wisp of a thing and only ate a tiny slice of the Victoria sponge they made for when Dot herself turned seventy last month and had at the little celebration here in the kitchen with Bridget taking telephone pictures of Julius on his fiddle and she on her banjo and Jeanie on the guitar all singing after a drop of port to lubricate the vocal chords Julius always says and how the sensation Dot has now is similar to the way she felt after her third glass clumsy and blurred with her thoughts diffuse dizzily leaving the remains of the cake on the table so that dog naughty stood on her hind legs and yumphed it down and them scolding and laughing until her sides … yurt? Kurt? all her loves but one, there with her, and the dog barking and jumping and barking too excited and noisy like she’d be in the snow waking Julius who sleeps so lightly and stirs at any noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll these thoughts and more, which Dot is barely aware of, pass through her mind while her body slows. It is a wet coat she wants to shed like the chickens with their autumn moult. An unresponsive weight. Leaden. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDot falls back onto the kitchen sofa as though someone has reached out a palm and pushed on her breastbone. The dog sits on her haunches and lowers her head onto Dot’s knee, nudging her hand until she places it between the animal’s ears. 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Her balance is upset, and she pitches face-forward, her right hand going out to break the fall, while the other catches under her chest, the finger with her wedding ring pinned beneath her. Dot’s head goes down and her forehead hits the edge of the hearth where a flagstone has always been slightly raised, shifting it so that the companion set which hangs beside the range, falls. A last lucid fragment of Dot’s mind worries that the clatter of the metal pan and brush might shock her daughter’s heart from its regular rhythm, until she remembers that this is the biggest lie of all. 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Unsettled Ground
A portrait of life on the fringes of society and a heart-stopping novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival.
