Wretchedness

Winner of the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Winner of the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation PrizeShortlisted for the 2016 August Prize Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeMalmö, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all over again the chaotic song of his youth. He emerges to a different sound, heading for a crash.From sprawling housing projects to underground clubs and squat parties, Wretchedness is a blistering trip through the underbelly of Europe’s cities. Powered by a furious, unpredictable beat, this is a paean to brotherhood, to those who didn’t make it however hard they fought, and a visceral indictment of the poverty which took them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-02
Mått:129 x 198 x 16 mm
Vikt:200 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:And Other Stories
ISBN:9781911508762
Översättare:Nichola Smalley
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Man Booker International Prize 2021

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Andrzej Tichý was born in Prague to a Polish mother and a Czech father and has lived in Sweden since 1981. In Sweden, Wretchedness was a finalist for the August Prize and won the Eyvind Johnson Prize, while Purity was a finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize. A translator Swedish and Norwegian literature, Nichola Smalley is also publicist at And Other Stories. In 2015 she finished a PhD exploring the use of contemporary urban vernaculars in Swedish and UK rap and literature at UCL. Her translations range from a Swedish book about Brazilian football (Jogo Bonito by Henrik Brandão Jönsson (Yellow Jersey Press)), to the latest novel by Norwegian superstar Jostein Gaarder, An Unreliable Man (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).

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‘What can a survivor do with their history? Can you be loyal to the friends you left behind? Andrzej Tichý turns this wretched reality into something poignant. His polyphonic novel has a rough, rhythmic melody and a ferocious rage.’

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