Sách - Transparent City by Stephen Henighan (UK edition, paperback)

Ships from and sold by EXPERAL Singapore Publisher: Independent Alliance Origin: United Kingdom (Imported) ISBN 13: 9781787703209 Condition: Brandnew Binding: paperback Pages: 352 Dimensons: 198 x 132 x 30 | 400 (gram) ---------------------------------------- “A blend of stylized surrealism and harrowing realism.”— LitHub "A moving mural of lives in the underclass of Luanda." –The Guardian In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato’s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless. Alongside, disparate stories are woven into the narrative, spanning from the tragic to the comic, from the surreal to the every-day, culminating into a depiction of near-future Luanda. A captivating blend of magical realism, scathing political satire, tender comedy, and literary experimentation, Transparent City offers a gripping and joyful portrait of urban Africa quite unlike any before yet published in English, and places Ondjaki among the continent’s most accomplished writers. NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD A VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018 A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOK A LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018 Key Selling Points • Named as one of “Top Five African Writers” by The Guardian • Magical realism as a literary trend • Winner of the José Saramago Prize, the 2015 Prix Trans-fuge for Best African Novel and the 2016 Prix Littérature-Monde • Major campaign including print press, digital marketing, author interviews Target readership • Lovers of magical realism, literary fiction and stunning poetic language • Readers of Max Porter, Deborah Levy and Elif Shafak • Readers who loved The Dis of Evening, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Review Quote"A moving mural of lives in the underclass of his home city, Luanda. [...] One of Angola’s most prominent authors, Ondjaki is attracting growing acclaim overseas." Review Quote“Ondjaki imagines an apocalyptic future ca by rampant corruption, and Transparent City opens and closes with Luanda engulfed in flames. Stephen Henighan’s translation from the Portuguese is no mean feat. Overlapping prose and loose punctuation give a vivid sense of humanity in constant motion, while elements of the surreal are interwoven through the narrative. It’s an audacious, highly original novel; a challenging, but rewarding read.” Review Quote“Ondjaki is experimentally bold, and his prose shifts through a kaleidoscope of registers, from the poetic to the political, the erotic to the absurd.” Review Quote“Ondjaki’s prose pulses with life... shine[s] with an unexpected clarity.” Review Quote“A blend of stylized surrealism and harrowing realism.” Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....