Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
Autor Sunil Yapaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2017
A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Best Book of 2016 A heart-stopping debut about protest and riot ...1999. Victor, homeless after a family tragedy, finds himself pounding the streets of Seattle with little meaning or purpose. He is the estranged son of the police chief of the city, and today his father is in charge of one of the largest protests in the history of Western democracy.
But in a matter of hours reality will become a nightmare. Hordes of protesters - from all sections of society - will test the patience of the city's police force, and lives will be altered forever: two armed police officers will struggle to keep calm amid the threat of violence; a protester with a murderous past will make an unforgivable mistake; and a delegate from Sri Lanka will do whatever it takes to make it through the crowd to a meeting - a meeting that could dramatically change the fate of his country. In amongst the fray, Victor and his father are heading for a collision too.
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, set during the World Trade Organization protests, is a deeply charged novel showcasing a distinct and exciting new literary voice.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349141428
ISBN-10: 0349141428
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 159 x 199 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
ISBN-10: 0349141428
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 159 x 199 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
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Notă biografică
Sunil
Yapa
received
his
MFA
from
Hunter
College,
where
he
was
awarded
the
Alumni
Scholarship
&
Welfare
Fund
Fellowship
and
was
selected
twice
as
the
Esquire
Fiction
Intern.
In
June
2010,
he
won
the
Asian
American
Short
Story
Award.
In
May
2010,
Yapa
was
the
writer-in-residence
at
the
Norman
Mailer
Writers'
Colony
in
Provincetown,
Massachusetts.
The
son
of
a
Sri
Lankan
father,
and
a
mother
from
Montana,
Yapa
grew
up
in
Pennsylvania,
and
has
since
traveled
and
lived
in
48
states
and
35
countries.
Recenzii
"A
fantastic
debut
novel....
What
is
so
enthralling
about
this
novel
is
its
syncopated
riff
of
empathy
as
the
perspective
jumps
around
these
participants--some
peaceful,
some
violent,
some
determined,
some
incredulous...
Yapa
creates
a
fluid
sense
of
the
riot
as
it
washes
over
the
city.Your
Heart
is
a
Muscle
the
Size
of
a
Fistultimately
does
for
WTO
protests
what
Norman
Mailer'sArmies
of
the
Nightdid
for
the
1967
March
on
the
Pentagon,
gathering
that
confrontation
in
competing
visions
of
what
happened
and
what
it
meant."--Ron
Charles,Washington
Post
"A symphony of a novel. Sunil Yapa inhabits the skins of characters vastly different to himself: a riot cop in Seattle, a punk activist, a disillusioned world traveler and a high-level diplomat, among others. Through it all Yapa showcases a raw and rare talent. This is a protest novel which finds, at its core, a deep and abiding regard for the music of what happens. In the contemporary tradition of Aleksandar Hemon and Phillipp Meyer, with echoes of Michael Ondaatje and Arundhati Roy, Yapa strives forward with a literary molotov cocktail to light up the dark."--Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award winnerLet the Great World Spin
"Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fistis visceral, horrifying, and often heroic. But above all, this book is a full-throated chorus of voices on all sides--protestors, cops, delegates, politicians, and ramblers--as democracy runs headlong into the machinery of global power. Sunil Yapa has achieved something special, a story that is as tragic as it is relevant, as unflinching as it is humane."
—Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
"Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is a stunningly orchestrated, symphonic work of narrative power. This novel marshals all the vital forces of our existence--from the domestic to the political--and offers them to the reader with equal doses of compassion and beauty."—Dinaw Mengestu, author ofAll Our Names
"There is nothing to say about Sunil Yapa's debut novel that its wonderful title doesn't already promise--its heart beats and bleeds on every page, in prose so raw it feels built of muscle and tissue and sinew and sweat. This book is delightfully, forcefully alive, and I feel more alive for having read it."—Eleanor Henderson, author ofTen Thousand Saints
"An open-armed love letter to humanity, this glorious novel loops around a burning center encompassing the warmth of parents and the coolness of patriarchy.Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fistwill compel you to look and then to witness. 'We are mad with hope'the narrator says early on, and by the end the reader is too."—Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning
"Sunil Yapa's debut novel is possibly the most gorgeous book I've read in my entire life... Yapa's pattern of meandering, artful, full-bodied imagery, punctuated by zingy one-liners makes for a seriously addictive read... It's painful. It's gorgeous. I can't say this enough: read it."
—Bustle Magazine
"A vital, powerful read, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fistis an absorbing, multi-faceted, acutely hopeful novel."—Patrick deWitt, author ofUndermajordomo MinorandThe Sisters Brothers
"A great wrenching beautiful book."—Laline Paull, author ofThe Bees
"Chilling...A memorable, pulse-pounding literary experience."—Publishers Weekly
"[A] gripping debut...Yapa is a skilled storyteller, revealing just enough about his characters and the direction of his plot to engage his readers, yet effectively building dramatic impact by withholding certain key details. In the style of Colum McCann'sLet the Great World Spin, Yapa ties together seemingly disparate characters and narratives through a charged moment in history, showing how it still affects us all in different ways."—Booklist
"Yapa's writing is visceral and unsparing. Noteworthy, capital-I Important and a ripping read, his novel will be on many "best" lists in 2016."—Library Journal (starred review)
"In this beautifully written, kaleidoscopically shifting novel.... Yapa penetrates to the human connections and disconnections at play between the lines of history in the era of the global village."—Chicago Tribune
"Explosive."—Entertainment Weekly
"If you're looking for a novel that moves with heat this winter, look no further."—Flavorwire
"The energy and sheer humanity of Sunil Yapa's debut will grab you, wrap you in, and won't let you go-and that's just the start of why you're going to love this. Seven characters narrate this charged book, which centers on a protest. It's so layered, you'll finish this wondering how Yapa pulled off what he did."—Bustle
"It's not often that a novel takes a fraught event from the recent past, one that most of us only experienced in the flash of the cable news cycle or the static of print headlines, and imbues it with so much heart and soul that we do something we almost never do in the constant crush forward and faster-we pause and reconsider. That is the power of literature. Sunil Yapa'sYour Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fistdoes just this for the momentous protests of the 1999 World Trade Organization's (WTO).... Yapa does a heroic job of journeying into the heart of this complex set of events, illustrating how they grow out of and impact the character's lives. And while the heart may be the size of a fist, here it paradoxically seems to encompass the whole world and all of its citizens, who pulse with its every beat."—The Rumpus
"[A] gripping, profoundly humane first novel.... An absolutely compelling read."—Bookpage
"Yapa's novel is a much-needed and refreshing pivot point. His novel makes a case for the validity of all opinions in a conflict the better part of two decades old. This rare quality of his work is a practice that many could benefit from in current conflicts, foreign and domestic."
—Denver Post
"Sunil Yapa's voice and ambition leap off the page. Here is a writer to watch."
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"This furiously paced and contrapuntal literary tour-de-force makes use of multiple vantage points and benefits from a remarkably empathic sensibility on the part of its author.... With Yapa burrowing into the hearts of these characters, each distinct yet sufferers all, his already weighty story attains a level of profundity."—Miami Herald
"Like magic, Yapa uses this handful of perspectives to create snapshots that allow the reader to imagine who else was there that day and what they were doing, thinking, and feeling...I can't imagine a better book to have kicked off my year in reading."—Bookriot
"Fast-paced and unflinching.... As these characters encounter one another in a fog of tear gas and pepper spray, Yapa vividly evokes rage and compassion. Underlying the novel, and at once reinforced and rejected, is the chief's mantra: "Care too much and the world will kill you cold."—Dallas Morning News
"Yapa's melding of fact and fiction, human frailty and geopolitics, isa genuine tour-de-force, and an exciting literary debut."—Seattle Times
"A beautifully written book."—Entertainment Weekly
"An achingly compassionate fiction debut."—O Magazine
"As electric a novel as I've ever read."
—Benjamin Percy, Esquire
"A symphony of a novel. Sunil Yapa inhabits the skins of characters vastly different to himself: a riot cop in Seattle, a punk activist, a disillusioned world traveler and a high-level diplomat, among others. Through it all Yapa showcases a raw and rare talent. This is a protest novel which finds, at its core, a deep and abiding regard for the music of what happens. In the contemporary tradition of Aleksandar Hemon and Phillipp Meyer, with echoes of Michael Ondaatje and Arundhati Roy, Yapa strives forward with a literary molotov cocktail to light up the dark."--Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award winnerLet the Great World Spin
"Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fistis visceral, horrifying, and often heroic. But above all, this book is a full-throated chorus of voices on all sides--protestors, cops, delegates, politicians, and ramblers--as democracy runs headlong into the machinery of global power. Sunil Yapa has achieved something special, a story that is as tragic as it is relevant, as unflinching as it is humane."
—Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
"Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist is a stunningly orchestrated, symphonic work of narrative power. This novel marshals all the vital forces of our existence--from the domestic to the political--and offers them to the reader with equal doses of compassion and beauty."—Dinaw Mengestu, author ofAll Our Names
"There is nothing to say about Sunil Yapa's debut novel that its wonderful title doesn't already promise--its heart beats and bleeds on every page, in prose so raw it feels built of muscle and tissue and sinew and sweat. This book is delightfully, forcefully alive, and I feel more alive for having read it."—Eleanor Henderson, author ofTen Thousand Saints
"An open-armed love letter to humanity, this glorious novel loops around a burning center encompassing the warmth of parents and the coolness of patriarchy.Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fistwill compel you to look and then to witness. 'We are mad with hope'the narrator says early on, and by the end the reader is too."—Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning
"Sunil Yapa's debut novel is possibly the most gorgeous book I've read in my entire life... Yapa's pattern of meandering, artful, full-bodied imagery, punctuated by zingy one-liners makes for a seriously addictive read... It's painful. It's gorgeous. I can't say this enough: read it."
—Bustle Magazine
"A vital, powerful read, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fistis an absorbing, multi-faceted, acutely hopeful novel."—Patrick deWitt, author ofUndermajordomo MinorandThe Sisters Brothers
"A great wrenching beautiful book."—Laline Paull, author ofThe Bees
"Chilling...A memorable, pulse-pounding literary experience."—Publishers Weekly
"[A] gripping debut...Yapa is a skilled storyteller, revealing just enough about his characters and the direction of his plot to engage his readers, yet effectively building dramatic impact by withholding certain key details. In the style of Colum McCann'sLet the Great World Spin, Yapa ties together seemingly disparate characters and narratives through a charged moment in history, showing how it still affects us all in different ways."—Booklist
"Yapa's writing is visceral and unsparing. Noteworthy, capital-I Important and a ripping read, his novel will be on many "best" lists in 2016."—Library Journal (starred review)
"In this beautifully written, kaleidoscopically shifting novel.... Yapa penetrates to the human connections and disconnections at play between the lines of history in the era of the global village."—Chicago Tribune
"Explosive."—Entertainment Weekly
"If you're looking for a novel that moves with heat this winter, look no further."—Flavorwire
"The energy and sheer humanity of Sunil Yapa's debut will grab you, wrap you in, and won't let you go-and that's just the start of why you're going to love this. Seven characters narrate this charged book, which centers on a protest. It's so layered, you'll finish this wondering how Yapa pulled off what he did."—Bustle
"It's not often that a novel takes a fraught event from the recent past, one that most of us only experienced in the flash of the cable news cycle or the static of print headlines, and imbues it with so much heart and soul that we do something we almost never do in the constant crush forward and faster-we pause and reconsider. That is the power of literature. Sunil Yapa'sYour Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fistdoes just this for the momentous protests of the 1999 World Trade Organization's (WTO).... Yapa does a heroic job of journeying into the heart of this complex set of events, illustrating how they grow out of and impact the character's lives. And while the heart may be the size of a fist, here it paradoxically seems to encompass the whole world and all of its citizens, who pulse with its every beat."—The Rumpus
"[A] gripping, profoundly humane first novel.... An absolutely compelling read."—Bookpage
"Yapa's novel is a much-needed and refreshing pivot point. His novel makes a case for the validity of all opinions in a conflict the better part of two decades old. This rare quality of his work is a practice that many could benefit from in current conflicts, foreign and domestic."
—Denver Post
"Sunil Yapa's voice and ambition leap off the page. Here is a writer to watch."
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"This furiously paced and contrapuntal literary tour-de-force makes use of multiple vantage points and benefits from a remarkably empathic sensibility on the part of its author.... With Yapa burrowing into the hearts of these characters, each distinct yet sufferers all, his already weighty story attains a level of profundity."—Miami Herald
"Like magic, Yapa uses this handful of perspectives to create snapshots that allow the reader to imagine who else was there that day and what they were doing, thinking, and feeling...I can't imagine a better book to have kicked off my year in reading."—Bookriot
"Fast-paced and unflinching.... As these characters encounter one another in a fog of tear gas and pepper spray, Yapa vividly evokes rage and compassion. Underlying the novel, and at once reinforced and rejected, is the chief's mantra: "Care too much and the world will kill you cold."—Dallas Morning News
"Yapa's melding of fact and fiction, human frailty and geopolitics, isa genuine tour-de-force, and an exciting literary debut."—Seattle Times
"A beautifully written book."—Entertainment Weekly
"An achingly compassionate fiction debut."—O Magazine
"As electric a novel as I've ever read."
—Benjamin Percy, Esquire