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Köp båda 2 för 552 krPraise for King of Joy Long-listed for the 2020 PEN Open Book Award One of The Morning News Tournament of the Books Long List Picks A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year NYLON, 1 of 14 Great Books to Read This Month One of Dennis Cooper's Favorite Books of the Year A Paperback Paris Most Anticipated Spring Book "A remarkable portrayal of restless youth, made sweeter by the author's crisp, spare prose and a thoughtful portrayal of a woman who lost her way." -Kirkus Reviews "This experimental literary novel is the right amount of both dreamy and dark . . . Lush, packed with jarring details, and surprisingly tender . . . A delicious, demonic novel that fades through adjacent, looping worlds in the magical early 2000s. Chiem evokes a lost decade and suggests the shape of the monsters that churned beneath its surface." -Foreword Reviews (starred review) "A disturbingly beautiful portrayal of trauma and grief, loss and redemption, friendship and fucking-and hippos . . . It's beautiful and painful and just psychedelic enough to make you feel like you've gone on a real journey when you turn the very last page." -Kristin Iversen, NYLON "Chiem's work is characterized by rich yet unadorned sentences, dreamlike scenes, and images that shock and awe with their astute observations. King of Joy's subject matter is heavy, but the reader is somehow able to float above it on Chiem's pleasant rhythms. That's not to say that the reader isn't going to come away from the book haunted . . . [A] tight, heartbreaking work." -Daniel J. Cecil, The Rumpus "[Chiem's] fiction uses passiveness to great effect, employs it as a way to examine the world . . . You might think that a 200-page novel about a young woman who is all but emotionally dead might be boring, or aimless, or as empty as its protagonist. You would be underestimating Chiem's considerable talents.There's an energy seething behind the words in King of Joy, an outrage and a demand for justice, that drives the story onward . . . It goes to some delightfully weird places." -Paul Constant, The Seattle Review of Books "Outrageous, fast-paced, and unpredictable . . . Chiem is a skillful writer leading us in this oddball world of hippos, porn kings, and avant-garde theatre . . . Richard Chiem is a kind of literary Robyn circa Body Talk . . . This novel is not only an exploration of grief; it's a confrontation with vulnerability, a journey from stoic numbness to an embrace of human emotion, and, in the end, a celebration of our ability to, if not heal, then at the very least, be resilient." -Eric Nguyen, diaCRITICS "One of the best books I read this year was Richard Chiem's King of Joy. It's a compelling and vivid experimental novel that is also staggeringly visual-the HD colors, slick skin and dewy details are so true and lush that reading it feels effortless, like letting a projector cast light across your face. It's dreamy, sexy and psychedelic, but the raw depictions of grief, trauma and resiliency will bust your heart open. I can't wait to read more from Chiem." -Kimberly King Parsons, Willamette Week "A surprisingly poignant novel about the devastating nature of grief, but also the importance of love and friendship." -Ian Mond, Locus "There are overtones of David Lynch and Denis Johnson . . . Chiem excels at fine, metaphorical finesse." -Stefan Milne, Seattle Met "There's a dream-like quality to the situations Chiem invents, and animals in the book are often attributed more admirable human qualities than the humans: people let Corvus down but pit bulls, cats, and hippopotami alike display loyalty, adoration, and a fierce protective spirit . . . There is something refreshingly ordinary about the author's milieu. His characters are disaffected urbanites, not academics or precocious wunderkind. They listen to Elliot Smith, work menial jobs, and look forward to t
Richard Chiem is the author of You Private Person, which was named one of Publishers Weekly 's 10 Essential Books of the American West. His work has been published in City Arts, Vol. 1 Brooklyn , Fanzine , 3:AM Magazine , and Moss , among many other venues. He has taught at Hugo House and at the University of Washington Bothell. He lives in Seattle.