Sách - Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (UK edition, paperback)

Bán và giao hàng bởi EXPERAL Việt Nam Tác giả: Mieko Kawakami Nhà xuất bản: Penguin Random House Công ty phát hành: Penguin Random House ISBN 13: 9781509898251 Tình trạng: Mới Binding: paperback Số trang: 176 Năm phát hành: 2023 Kích thước: 196 x 129 x 15 | 131 (gram) ---------------------------------------- Review QuoteTaking two outcast teens as its unhappy protagonists, it is an expertly told, deeply unsettling tale of adolescent violence that will, no doubt, only grow the author's fan baseReview QuoteThis is the real magic of Heaven, which shows us how to think about morality as an ongoing, dramatic activity. Review QuoteTo read Heaven, by the author of Breasts and Eggs, and newly translated into English from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd, is to bear witness to an unrelenting horror film of one boy’s youthReview QuoteThe second novel to appear in English by the bestselling Japanese author Mieko Kawakami is tauter and even more perceptive than its predecessor . . . Heaven is less than half the length and holds double the emotional forceReview QuoteFor me this is a perfect novel, and one I know I will return to before longReview QuoteHeaven is a thoughtful novel about the value of the flaws that make us who we areReview QuoteShort but assured. . .by the end, the reader is so dizzily absorbed in its visceral details and philosophical complexity that, when the twist comes, it hits you with a strange and unexpected forceReview QuoteImpeccably translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd, the book is full of masterly set pieces of violence, scenes of senseless bullying so lucid you can almost feel the pain yourself . . . Review QuoteHeaven is told with astonishing frankness and economy. It will cut through all your defences down to every layer of fear, isolation, hope and need you’ve ever felt . . . Mieko Kawakami is a geniusReview QuoteA raw, painful, and tender portrait of adolescent misery, reminiscent of both Elena Ferrante's fiction . . . I cannot, in good conscience, endorse it without a warning: This book is very likely to make you cryReview QuoteBrilliant . . . This captivating, quietly devastating book is about the relationship between two school misfits. The same vulnerabilities that expose them to their tormentors allow them to see one another with a pure sort of attentionReview QuoteIn this horror film, oblivious authority figures walk on by as you grope for breath, wondering what it even means to be alive and freeReview QuoteSimple and profound, Heaven is an undeniable masterpieceReview QuoteA poignant odyssey into the haunted caverns of adolescence . . . Kawakami writes with jagged, visceral beauty about those early antagonists we carry around in our heads, scars we bear into adulthood, ‘caught in the undertow’ of hormones and sorrowReview QuoteMieko Kawakami pulls from the all too familiar places we learn to accept as normal in our youth and gives them to us to reflect on as adults in a painful yet necessary way. Even if we could ne