Everything You Ever Wanted: A Florence Welch Between Two Books Pick
Autor Luiza Saumaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 sep 2020
'Wry, beautiful, surprising and deeply moving'Rachel Seiffert,Guardian
'Captures so excellently the low level anxiety that hums through everyday life'DailyTelegraph
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You wake up. You go to work. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you get so blackout drunk you can't remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up next to your colleague. The next day you stay in bed, scrolling through your social media feeds and wondering why everyone else seems to be achieving so much.
Then you hear aboutLife on Nyx, a programme that offers the chance to move to another planet and start a new, meaningful way of life. But there's a caveat: if you go, you can never come back.
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'An acute satire of our social media-dominated times and a haunting examination of depression and anxiety rendered in diamond sharp prose'i
'Sauma has the horrors of the workplace nailed with satirical precision'Sunday Times Culture
'Weird, wonderfulandbeautifully written'Daily Mail
'For fans ofBlack Mirror'Elle
'Millennial angst meets sci-fi'Stylist
'Uplifting, unputdownable and mordantly funny'Sharlene Teo, author ofPonti
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241363560
ISBN-10: 024136356X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 024136356X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Luiza
Saumawas
born
in
Rio
de
Janeiro
and
raised
in
London.
Her
first
novel,Flesh
and
Bone
and
Water,
received
widespread
critical
acclaim
and
she
was
listed
by
theTelegraphas
one
of
their
'ones
to
watch'
for
2017.
Luiza
worked
at
theIndependent
on
Sundayfor
several
years
before
becoming
a
novelist.
She
has
an
MA
in
Creative
and
Life
Writing
from
Goldsmiths,
University
of
London,
where
she
won
the
Pat
Kavanagh
Award.
Recenzii
Sauma
skewers
the
falsities
and
disappointments
of
contemporary
life
and
work
with
rare
sensitivity,
unfolding
an
evocative
narrative
of
unearthly
escape.I
loved
it
Every now and then, a book comes along and pins down the wild thoughts that have been circling around in your brain as you question the meaning of your lifein the bath at midnight.Manages to sensitively unpack the frustrations of modern life while appreciating how funny the banality of it all is
Animportant and poignantnovel that captures the ennui, panic and stubborn optimism of the zeitgeist withspirit, humour and a fearless portrayal of human truth
Beautifully written . . .Everything You Ever Wantedexplores our current obsession with a meaningful life
Everything You Ever Wantedisone of the most original and urgent novels I've read this year.Sauma dives under the skin of the way we live now and makes it into an astonishing new shape. Funny, heart-breaking and thought-provoking -a novel that talks about all the things we are most afraid to talk about. Read it!
Sauma'swondrousnovel could not be moretimely.Captures the era of social media addictionand status anxietyperfectly. . . . with echoes ofThe Truman Showand1984
Uplifting, unputdownable and mordantly funny,Everything You Ever Wantedis the dystopian beach read you didn't know you needed. It's a love letter to London from outer space. It's both a speculative dystopian drama and a deadpan office satire. It's a brilliantly relatable and ambitious ode to the humdrum and the sublime;a truly original novel that captures the pleasures and displeasures of modern, earthly life.
Everything You Ever Wantedisso sharp-eyed about our hidden hopes and tiny hypocrisies.Even the most fantastical elements feel painfully, perfectly true.I'd follow Sauma's voice down any wormhole
A daring and original novel that asks profound questions about the way we live todaywhilst being simultaneously playful and fun.Sauma is brilliant at nailing the details of contemporary lifein a way that is recognisable to anyone who has suffered the mundanity of office jobs.
Courageous, haunting, and beautiful-with EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED,Luiza Sauma takes us on a breathtaking voyage through both the farthest reaches of space and the innermost depths of the human soul
Tinged with melancholy and yearning, this novel iswryand frequentlybeautiful, and its culmination issurprising and deeply moving
What Saumacaptures so excellentlyis thelow level anxiety that hums through everyday life
Her writing is beautiful
Weird, wonderfulandbeautifully written
Sauma has the horrors of the workplacenailed with satirical precision
Absorbingandambitious. Filled withsharp observations about the way in which we live now,Everything You Ever Wantedis bothan acute satire of our social-media dominated times, and ahaunting examination of depression and anxietyrendered indiamond sharp prosewith barely a wasted word. . .It deserves to be on every prize longlist this year
For fans ofBlack Mirror
Millennial angst meets sci-fi
Sublime
Every now and then, a book comes along and pins down the wild thoughts that have been circling around in your brain as you question the meaning of your lifein the bath at midnight.Manages to sensitively unpack the frustrations of modern life while appreciating how funny the banality of it all is
Animportant and poignantnovel that captures the ennui, panic and stubborn optimism of the zeitgeist withspirit, humour and a fearless portrayal of human truth
Beautifully written . . .Everything You Ever Wantedexplores our current obsession with a meaningful life
Everything You Ever Wantedisone of the most original and urgent novels I've read this year.Sauma dives under the skin of the way we live now and makes it into an astonishing new shape. Funny, heart-breaking and thought-provoking -a novel that talks about all the things we are most afraid to talk about. Read it!
Sauma'swondrousnovel could not be moretimely.Captures the era of social media addictionand status anxietyperfectly. . . . with echoes ofThe Truman Showand1984
Uplifting, unputdownable and mordantly funny,Everything You Ever Wantedis the dystopian beach read you didn't know you needed. It's a love letter to London from outer space. It's both a speculative dystopian drama and a deadpan office satire. It's a brilliantly relatable and ambitious ode to the humdrum and the sublime;a truly original novel that captures the pleasures and displeasures of modern, earthly life.
Everything You Ever Wantedisso sharp-eyed about our hidden hopes and tiny hypocrisies.Even the most fantastical elements feel painfully, perfectly true.I'd follow Sauma's voice down any wormhole
A daring and original novel that asks profound questions about the way we live todaywhilst being simultaneously playful and fun.Sauma is brilliant at nailing the details of contemporary lifein a way that is recognisable to anyone who has suffered the mundanity of office jobs.
Courageous, haunting, and beautiful-with EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED,Luiza Sauma takes us on a breathtaking voyage through both the farthest reaches of space and the innermost depths of the human soul
Tinged with melancholy and yearning, this novel iswryand frequentlybeautiful, and its culmination issurprising and deeply moving
What Saumacaptures so excellentlyis thelow level anxiety that hums through everyday life
Her writing is beautiful
Weird, wonderfulandbeautifully written
Sauma has the horrors of the workplacenailed with satirical precision
Absorbingandambitious. Filled withsharp observations about the way in which we live now,Everything You Ever Wantedis bothan acute satire of our social-media dominated times, and ahaunting examination of depression and anxietyrendered indiamond sharp prosewith barely a wasted word. . .It deserves to be on every prize longlist this year
For fans ofBlack Mirror
Millennial angst meets sci-fi
Sublime