Perfect Day to Put Your Head in the Oven

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

198 kr

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The only difference between fiction and memoir is Truth ...A MULTIPLE TAIWANESE AWARD WINNERTranslated by Lin King, translator of International Booker Prize-winner, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUEReader love for A PERFECT DAY TO PUT YOUR HEAD IN THE OVEN***** ‘Reading this made me fly back to my own past’***** ‘I enjoyed its tenderness. Like the protagonist at the end, I felt warmth float into my eyes’***** ‘Interesting and philosophical. This cleverly considers the differences between fiction and reality’__________A genre-defying novel from a rare new international voice for fans of Lucia Berlin, Elena Ferrante and Han Kang as a writer gives up on fiction to explore the truth of her own youth.Faced with writer’s block, Tan’s attempts to write her first novel are faltering. And so she embarks instead on a memoir, sparking a lively dialogue with old friends as they search their memories to examine what each one recalls and why. Was it really a dinner-table game that revealed her parents were on the brink of divorce? And was her aunt’s shower curtain really made up of raincoats?Soon, her work-in-progress starts to acquire a life of its own, gradually eclipsing the past and replacing it with something new. After Tan has put her story into a metaphorical oven, what emerges is not a faithful record of the past, but a freshly baked creation forged from memory, imagination and desire.Moving between past and present, childhood and adulthood, self and others, A PERFECT DAY TO PUT YOUR HEAD IN THE OVEN humorously transforms a personal search for truth into a surprising meditation on our human desire to make sense of our lives._________'A gorgeous, surprising and deeply intelligent book. I read it rapt and awestruck' Claire Vaye Watkins***** ‘A book to read over and over’***** ‘This is not only a process of "memory reconstruction," but also a dialectic of "fiction vs. reality"’***** ‘Its words are like a whirlpool, pulling me back to my teenage years’

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-14
Mått:135 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:239 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN:9781529972207
Översättare:Lin King

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Lee Chia-Ying (Author) Lee Chia-Ying is the author of three acclaimed short story collections. Her debut novel A Perfect Day to Put Your Head in the Oven has received multiple literary awards in Taiwan and is being translated into more than twenty languages. She is now based in Boston and Taipei.Lin King (Translator) Lin King is a writer and translator based in Taipei and New York. King received the 2026 International Booker Prize for her translation of Taiwan Travellogue by Yang Shuang-zi and also the 2024 National Book Award in Translation. She has also been awarded the 2024 Baifang Schell Book Prize from the Asia Society and the 2025 First Translation Prize from the American Literary Translators Association. King speaks English, Mandarin and Japanese. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from Columbia University. Her fiction has been published in One Story, Boston Review, Joyland, and Best Debut Short Stories. Her debut novel, Weeb, is forthcoming in 2027.