Aysegül Savas

Gebundenes Buch

Long Distance

Stories

Beschreibung

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VULTURE, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE From the acclaimed author of one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2024 The Anthropologists, comes a masterful collection of stories about distance and closeness in the age of connectivity. "An exceptionally elegant, intelligent, and original writer." --Sigrid Nunez "She is an author who simply, and astoundingly, knows." --Bryan Washington "The rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald." --Catherine Lacey "One of my favorite writers." --Katie Kitamura A researcher abroad in Rome eagerly awaits a visit from her long-distance lover, only to find he is not the same man she remembers. An expat meets a childhood friend on a layover and is dismayed by her unexpected contentment. A newly pregnant woman considers the American taboo of sharing the news too soon, but can't resist when an opportunity comes to patch up a damaged friendship. Long Distance showcases Savas's devastating talent for the short story. Her shrewd encapsulations of contemporary life often center on characters displaced more by choice than circumstance, characters both determined to install themselves in new lives and preoccupied with the people they've left behind.

Autor

Aysegül Savas

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781639733101
• ISBN-10: 1639733108
• Artikelnr.: 71818274

Rezensionen

'Don't be deceived by Savas's cool, matter-of-fact tone - beneath it lie layers of wisdom, delicacy and subtlety' Guardian

'Singular, delightful... The melancholy of these narrators, though tangible, treads only lightly on the text - an effect achieved through the spareness of Savas's prose style' TLS

'Like little slices of distilled humanity, these stories capture life at its largest and its smallest. Exquisitely emotional, millimetre precise, and with a singular Savas-specific atmosphere that is hard to describe or pinpoint, but unmistakably there from the first page. With LONG DISTANCE, Savas has cemented herself as one of my favourite contemporary writers.' Jenny Mustard, author of WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE and OKAY DAYS

'An exceptionally elegant, intelligent, and original writer' Sigrid Nunez

'The rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald' Catherine Lacey

'One of my favourite writers' Katie Kitamura

In Savas's astute and absorbing collection of stories, her protagonists find themselves questioning long-held assumptions about their innate qualities as encounters with friends and strangers, lovers and family members, prompt reevaluations that can sometimes be gently forgiving and at other times quietly devastating."