Feast Days
Autor Ian MacKenzieen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 oct 2019
Devastating, funny and wise, it's among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad."--Garth Greenwell
"One of the most memorable narrative voices in recent fiction."--Publishers Weekly,Starred Review
Intelligent and deeply felt,Feast Daysfollows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo--a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage.
In stylish prose and with piercing wit, Ian MacKenzie tells the story of Emma, a young woman who has moved from New York to Brazil just as massive demonstrations against the government are breaking out across the country amid growing economic inequality. Emma has come to Brazil for her husband's career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in Sao Paulo are listless but privileged; she dines at high-end restaurants, tutors wealthy Brazilians in English, and observes the city she now calls home.
But when Emma volunteers at a local church to assist refugees and grows more deeply connected to the people she meets in the course of her days, she finds herself unable to resist the tug of Sao Paulo's political and social unrest.
As the country moves seemingly closer to a breaking point, so does Emma's marriage, as she and her husband can no longer ignore the silent, tectonic shifts beneath the surface of their relationship.
Feast Daysis a sharply observed story of expatriate life, as well as a meditation on the hidden costs of modern living and how easily our belief systems can collapse around us.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316440158
ISBN-10: 0316440159
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.08 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316440159
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.08 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Ian
Mackenzie
was
born
and
raised
in
Massachusetts,
graduated
from
Harvard,
and
since
then
has
lived
in
New
York
City,
Addis
Ababa,
Ethiopia,
and
Sao
Paulo,
Brazil.
He
currently
lives
in
Washington,
DC.
Recenzii
"MacKenzie's
elegant
second
novel,Feast
Days,is
a
story
about
love
and
power,
luxury
and
empire,
set
in
one
of
the
most
socially
stratified
countries
on
the
planet....MacKenzie's
economy
is
remarkable.
Using
thin
brushstrokes,
inventive
turns
of
phrase,
and
fragmentary,
dialogue-heavy
sections,
he
deftly
captures
how
an
outsider
is
only
able
to
comprehend
a
country
in
pieces,
assembling
an
incomplete
puzzle
over
time.
What
holds
this
portrait
of
a
marriage
together,
across
time
and
across
continents,
is
Emma's
voice....
MacKenzie's
slender
novel
feels
heavier
than
many
novels
twice
its
weight,
dramatizing
what
it's
like
for
the
wealthy
to
live
with
the
poor
in
the
corner
of
their
eye...
In
that
sense,Feast
Daysis
as
much
about
America
as
it
is
about
Brazil,
as
much
about
San
Francisco
as
São
Paulo."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"The novel of the ugly American living abroad has bloomed into a genre all its own, one I happen to devour with relish. Among my favorites are Charles Portis'sGringos, Ben Lerner'sLeaving the Atocha Stationand Nell Zink'sThe Wallcreeper. MacKenzie's second novel arrives as a worthy addition to that list.... Expatriate novels often reveal more about their characters' homelands than they do about their presumably exotic destinations.Feast Daysdoes likewise."—New York Times Book Review
"MacKenzie's first person account of a woman in her late 20s living in São Paulo is one of the most convincing female voices this reviewer has come across....Despite a lack of action - most of the book centers on Emma's interior observations - there is a tension that anything could happen, that snap decisions have life-altering repercussions....Feast Daysis a sophisticated and astute story of expatriate life told from a truly convincing, captivating female voice."
—Irish Times
"This brilliant novel has no time for platitudes or conventional, ankle-deep morality; it plunges us straight to the depths. I'm not sure I know another book that feels at once so disaffected and so full of longing, so expansive in its sympathy and so terrifying in its candor. Devastating, funny and wise, it's among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad."—Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs To You
"Ian MacKenzie writes about cities with the same verve and vigour as Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith.... MacKenzie has found a narrator who can voice many of the uncomfortable issues of our time: one cannot help but read on.... He is exploring the privilege of the white American abroad, and Feast Days delivers cutting criticism.... This book rings devastatingly true.... There is also a delight in words that is wonderful to read, a delicious speed to the prose. Feast Days is not a thriller, but reads a little like one, moving swiftly from one kind of experience to the next with brutal, dazzling effect."—The Guardian
"This highly anticipated new offering from MacKenzie poignantly contrasts the political breakdown of Brazil with the marital breakdown of a pair of expatriates."
—Entertainment Weekly
"Feast Daysis a wry, arresting, clear-eyed, unsentimental, utterly fresh take on the most urgent narrative questions there are. Class, money, politics, race, globalization, marriage, gender, reproduction, culture: Ian MacKenzie engages it all with such keen intelligence and wit your eyes feel new. Magnificent, deep, profound, and true."
—Elisa Albert, author of After Birth
"Feast Days is so much more than a novel. It's an all-consuming meditation on the modern condition, the search for rootedness in the ever-shifting worlds of our own creation, told by a writer so gifted with language that you forget who you are in the poetry of his prose."—Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation
"There is a sly, brooding intelligence at work in this novel, recalling for me the startling, highest times in American literature. MacKenzie is not just a great writer in the making--he's already there."
—Brad Watson, author ofMiss Jane
"Brilliant.... A pervasive sent of unrest, both large and small scale, social and personal, [is] conveyed in MacKenzie's unruffled, discerning prose. With it, MacKenzie has captured one of the most memorable narrative voices in recent fiction."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Intelligent and atmospheric,Feast Daysdeftly limns the inner life of a foreigner whose own trajectory becomes increasingly bound up with the tensions and complexities of the society in which she has landed."—Chloe Aridjis, author of Book of Clouds and Asunder
"Poignant and perceptive.... A satisfyingly complex look at life abroad."
—Booklist
—San Francisco Chronicle
"The novel of the ugly American living abroad has bloomed into a genre all its own, one I happen to devour with relish. Among my favorites are Charles Portis'sGringos, Ben Lerner'sLeaving the Atocha Stationand Nell Zink'sThe Wallcreeper. MacKenzie's second novel arrives as a worthy addition to that list.... Expatriate novels often reveal more about their characters' homelands than they do about their presumably exotic destinations.Feast Daysdoes likewise."—New York Times Book Review
"MacKenzie's first person account of a woman in her late 20s living in São Paulo is one of the most convincing female voices this reviewer has come across....Despite a lack of action - most of the book centers on Emma's interior observations - there is a tension that anything could happen, that snap decisions have life-altering repercussions....Feast Daysis a sophisticated and astute story of expatriate life told from a truly convincing, captivating female voice."
—Irish Times
"This brilliant novel has no time for platitudes or conventional, ankle-deep morality; it plunges us straight to the depths. I'm not sure I know another book that feels at once so disaffected and so full of longing, so expansive in its sympathy and so terrifying in its candor. Devastating, funny and wise, it's among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad."—Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs To You
"Ian MacKenzie writes about cities with the same verve and vigour as Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith.... MacKenzie has found a narrator who can voice many of the uncomfortable issues of our time: one cannot help but read on.... He is exploring the privilege of the white American abroad, and Feast Days delivers cutting criticism.... This book rings devastatingly true.... There is also a delight in words that is wonderful to read, a delicious speed to the prose. Feast Days is not a thriller, but reads a little like one, moving swiftly from one kind of experience to the next with brutal, dazzling effect."—The Guardian
"This highly anticipated new offering from MacKenzie poignantly contrasts the political breakdown of Brazil with the marital breakdown of a pair of expatriates."
—Entertainment Weekly
"Feast Daysis a wry, arresting, clear-eyed, unsentimental, utterly fresh take on the most urgent narrative questions there are. Class, money, politics, race, globalization, marriage, gender, reproduction, culture: Ian MacKenzie engages it all with such keen intelligence and wit your eyes feel new. Magnificent, deep, profound, and true."
—Elisa Albert, author of After Birth
"Feast Days is so much more than a novel. It's an all-consuming meditation on the modern condition, the search for rootedness in the ever-shifting worlds of our own creation, told by a writer so gifted with language that you forget who you are in the poetry of his prose."—Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation
"There is a sly, brooding intelligence at work in this novel, recalling for me the startling, highest times in American literature. MacKenzie is not just a great writer in the making--he's already there."
—Brad Watson, author ofMiss Jane
"Brilliant.... A pervasive sent of unrest, both large and small scale, social and personal, [is] conveyed in MacKenzie's unruffled, discerning prose. With it, MacKenzie has captured one of the most memorable narrative voices in recent fiction."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Intelligent and atmospheric,Feast Daysdeftly limns the inner life of a foreigner whose own trajectory becomes increasingly bound up with the tensions and complexities of the society in which she has landed."—Chloe Aridjis, author of Book of Clouds and Asunder
"Poignant and perceptive.... A satisfyingly complex look at life abroad."
—Booklist