Souvankham Thammavongsa

Broschiertes Buch

How to Pronounce Knife

Stories

Beschreibung

"In her stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong. An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands; a mother and daughter harvest earthworms in the middle of the night; a country music-obsessed housewife abandons her family for fantasy; and a young girl's love for her father transcends language. Uncannily and intimately observed, written with prose of exceptional precision, the stories in How to Pronounce Knife speak of modern location and dislocation, revealing lives lived in the embrace of isolation and severed history--but not without joy, humour, resilience, and constant wonder at the workings of the world"--

Autor

Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand and was raised and educated in Toronto. She is the award-winning author of four books of poetry and her fiction has appeared in Harper's, Granta, the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Best American Non-Required Reading 2018, and the O. Henry Prize Stories 2019.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9780316422123
• ISBN-10: 0316422126
• Artikelnr.: 61644951

Rezensionen

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