How to Pronounce Knife: Winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Autor Souvankham Thammavongsaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mar 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526610454
ISBN-10: 1526610450
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526610450
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
An exceptional new literary talent: Thammavongsa's stories have featured in Granta, Paris Review and Harper's, and her writing has already garnered praise from writers such as Sheila Heti, Helen Oyeyemi and Diane Williams. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Notă biografică
Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand in 1978 and was raised and educated in Toronto. She is an award-winning author of four poetry books. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize, been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and have appeared in Granta, Harper's and the Paris Review among other publications. How to Pronounce Knife is her debut short story collection.souvankham-thammavongsa.com
Recenzii
Every once in a while, you come across a book with writing so breathtaking that you take note of the author so you can read everything they ever write in the future. How to Pronounce Knife, by Souvankham Thammavongsa is one of those books
Spellbinding ... A perfect marriage of style and refreshing, surprising substance. Like her characters, Thammavongsa possesses x-ray vision for teetering power structures and those who sit precariously at the top of them. But her writing goes beyond this. It actively, though quietly, works against the invisibility or erasure of migrants living and trying to make a living in the margins.
Impressive ... Thammavongsa's spare, rigorous stories are preoccupied with themes of alienation and dislocation, her characters burdened by the sense of existing unseen ... Thammavongsa's gift for the gently absurd means the stories never feel dour or predictable ... It is when the characters' sense of alienation follows them home, into the private space of the family, that Thammavongsa's stories most wrench the heart
The stories are slender, spare, and slide between your ribs like a super-sharp blade, fast and soundless, before you realize what's happening
[Souvankham Thammavongsa's] poignant, affecting debut collection conversationally captures the everyday lives of immigrants and refugees who have moved to the city in the hope of better lives
In this touching debut, the Thailand-born, Toronto-raised author captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city with universal hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and a desire to belong ... stand-out
This series of short stories brings to life figures that might otherwise not figure on the literary radar ... with enough panache to keep the reader gripped throughout
[Thammavongsa] captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees exploring family relationships, escape from the real world and the love that binds us all
[Thammavongsa's] careful dissection of everyday moments of racism, classism and sexism exposes how power and privilege drive success, how work shapes the immigrant identity, and how erasure and invisibility lead to isolation
Exacting, sharply funny short fictions
These stories feel simple but they move within you and it is impossible to let them go. They are sharp and vital. Thammavongsa is a master over the sentence
These poignant and deceptively quiet stories are powerhouses of feeling and depth; How to Pronounce Knife is an artful blend of simplicity and sophistication
I love these stories. There's some fierce and steady activity in all of the sentences - something that makes them live, and makes them shift a little in meaning when you look at them again and they look back at you (or look beyond you)
Souvankham Thammavongsa writes with deep precision, wide-open spaces, and quiet, cool, emotionally devastating poise. There is not a moment off in these affecting stories
A riveting, subversive collection that alights within us like a shock to the system. I find it miraculous - and liberating and joyful - that language so radiantly exact can be so raw, so brazen. This is a major work and a lasting one
Thammavongsa's radiant debut collection of short stories is full of precarity, strength, uncertainty, messiness and life
The stories here will gut you, as Thammavongsa's insight proves to be razor-sharp
Spellbinding ... A perfect marriage of style and refreshing, surprising substance. Like her characters, Thammavongsa possesses x-ray vision for teetering power structures and those who sit precariously at the top of them. But her writing goes beyond this. It actively, though quietly, works against the invisibility or erasure of migrants living and trying to make a living in the margins.
Impressive ... Thammavongsa's spare, rigorous stories are preoccupied with themes of alienation and dislocation, her characters burdened by the sense of existing unseen ... Thammavongsa's gift for the gently absurd means the stories never feel dour or predictable ... It is when the characters' sense of alienation follows them home, into the private space of the family, that Thammavongsa's stories most wrench the heart
The stories are slender, spare, and slide between your ribs like a super-sharp blade, fast and soundless, before you realize what's happening
[Souvankham Thammavongsa's] poignant, affecting debut collection conversationally captures the everyday lives of immigrants and refugees who have moved to the city in the hope of better lives
In this touching debut, the Thailand-born, Toronto-raised author captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city with universal hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and a desire to belong ... stand-out
This series of short stories brings to life figures that might otherwise not figure on the literary radar ... with enough panache to keep the reader gripped throughout
[Thammavongsa] captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees exploring family relationships, escape from the real world and the love that binds us all
[Thammavongsa's] careful dissection of everyday moments of racism, classism and sexism exposes how power and privilege drive success, how work shapes the immigrant identity, and how erasure and invisibility lead to isolation
Exacting, sharply funny short fictions
These stories feel simple but they move within you and it is impossible to let them go. They are sharp and vital. Thammavongsa is a master over the sentence
These poignant and deceptively quiet stories are powerhouses of feeling and depth; How to Pronounce Knife is an artful blend of simplicity and sophistication
I love these stories. There's some fierce and steady activity in all of the sentences - something that makes them live, and makes them shift a little in meaning when you look at them again and they look back at you (or look beyond you)
Souvankham Thammavongsa writes with deep precision, wide-open spaces, and quiet, cool, emotionally devastating poise. There is not a moment off in these affecting stories
A riveting, subversive collection that alights within us like a shock to the system. I find it miraculous - and liberating and joyful - that language so radiantly exact can be so raw, so brazen. This is a major work and a lasting one
Thammavongsa's radiant debut collection of short stories is full of precarity, strength, uncertainty, messiness and life
The stories here will gut you, as Thammavongsa's insight proves to be razor-sharp