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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
135 kr
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‘Riveting’ Margaret Atwood‘I loved this book intensely’ Lauren Groff GuardianThe plague is spreading. The hundred year war is beginning. Katharina Kepler is believed to be a witch.Known for her herbal remedies and successful children – among them Johannes, Imperial Mathematician and author of the laws of planetary motion – Katharina’s life is changed by an accusation of witchcraft. Facing financial ruin, torture and even execution, she tells her side of the story.Witty, engaging and vividly imagined, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch draws on historical documents to illuminate a society undone by collective aggression and hysterical fear – a narrative with true resonance for today. ‘Darkly funny … Her prose, which recalls Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, is light, pared back and subtly archaic’ Financial Times ‘Superbly voiced … funny’ Telegraph ‘A magical brew of absurdity and brutality’ Washington Post ‘Galchen expertly weaves together a story told from multiple perspectives, showing how easy it is for a mob mentality to take hold in a climate of fear and ignorance when a woman simply exists outside of the norm’ New York Times
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
146 kr
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‘Last December, a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my wife…’ Dr Leo Liebenstein is convinced that his wife has disappeared and that she has been replaced by a double.While everyone else may be fooled, Leo knows she cannot be his real wife, and sets off on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love. With the help of his psychiatric patient Harvey – who believes himself to be a secret agent who can control the weather – Leo attempts to unravel this mystery. Why has his wife been replaced? What do the secret workings of The Royal Society of Meteorology have to do with it? Who is the enigmatic Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, and is he, or maybe his wife, or perhaps even Harvey, at the centre of it all? From the streets of New York to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, Leo’s erratic quest ultimately becomes a test of how far he is willing to take his struggle against the uncontested truth he knows to be false.‘Atmospheric Disturbances’ is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind. In this highly inventive debut, with tremendous compassion and dazzling literary sophistication, Rivka Galchen explores the mysterious nature of human relationships, and how we spend our lives trying to weather the storms of our own making.
E-bok
Engelska, 200877 kr
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Already much praised and described as `playful yet profound, Murakami-esque yet original…heartbreaking…stunning…an unforgettable debut’ (Vendela Vida), Atmospheric Disturbances is one of the most widely anticipated fiction debuts of 2008.`Last December, a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my wife…’ Dr Leo Liebenstein is convinced that his wife has disappeared and that she has been replaced by a double.While everyone else may be fooled, Leo knows she cannot be his real wife, and sets off on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love. With the help of his psychiatric patient Harvey – who believes himself to be a secret agent who can control the weather – Leo attempts to unravel this mystery. Why has his wife been replaced? What do the secret workings of The Royal Society of Meteorology have to do with it? Who is the enigmatic Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, and is he, or maybe his wife, or perhaps even Harvey, at the center of it all? From the streets of New York to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, Leo's erratic quest ultimately becomes a test of how far he is willing to take his struggle against the uncontested truth he knows to be false.Atmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind. In this highly inventive debut, with tremendous compassion and dazzling literary sophistication, Rivka Galchen explores the mysterious nature of human relationships, and how we spend our lives trying to weather the storms of our own making.
E-bok
Engelska, 202190 kr
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‘Riveting’ Margaret Atwood‘I loved this book intensely’ Lauren Groff GuardianThe plague is spreading. The hundred year war is beginning. Katharina Kepler is believed to be a witch.Known for her herbal remedies and successful children – among them Johannes, Imperial Mathematician and author of the laws of planetary motion – Katharina’s life is changed by an accusation of witchcraft. Facing financial ruin, torture and even execution, she tells her side of the story.Witty, engaging and vividly imagined, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch draws on historical documents to illuminate a society undone by collective aggression and hysterical fear – a narrative with true resonance for today. ‘Darkly funny … Her prose, which recalls Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, is light, pared back and subtly archaic’ Financial Times ‘Superbly voiced … funny’ Telegraph ‘A magical brew of absurdity and brutality’ Washington Post ‘Galchen expertly weaves together a story told from multiple perspectives, showing how easy it is for a mob mentality to take hold in a climate of fear and ignorance when a woman simply exists outside of the norm’ New York Times
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
146 kr
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A short-story collection from one of America’s brightest young talents.In one of these intensely imaginative stories a young woman’s furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated dependences and loves of a family.Following spiralling paths towards utterly logical, entirely absurd conclusions, Galchen’s creations occupy a dreamlike dimension, where time is fluid and identities are best defined by the qualities they lack. The tales in this groundbreaking collection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, allowing the reader the pleasure of discovering familiar favourites in new guises. Here ‘The Lost Order’ covertly recapitulates James Thurber’s ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’, while ‘The Region of Unlikeness’ playfully mirrors Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘The Aleph’.By turns realistic, fantastical and lyrical, all these marvellously uneasy stories share a deeply emotional core and are written in dryly witty, pitch-perfect prose. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer of eye-opening ingenuity.
E-bok
Engelska, 2014172 kr
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A short-story collection from one of America’s brightest young talents.In one of these intensely imaginative stories a young woman’s furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated dependences and loves of a family.Following spiralling paths towards utterly logical, entirely absurd conclusions, Galchen’s creations occupy a dreamlike dimension, where time is fluid and identities are best defined by the qualities they lack. The tales in this groundbreaking collection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, allowing the reader the pleasure of discovering familiar favourites in new guises. Here `The Lost Order’ covertly recapitulates James Thurber’s `The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’, while `The Region of Unlikeness’ playfully mirrors Jorge Luis Borges’s `The Aleph’.By turns realistic, fantastical and lyrical, all these marvellously uneasy stories share a deeply emotional core and are written in dryly witty, pitch-perfect prose. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer of eye-opening ingenuity.
E-bok
Engelska, 201760 kr
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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.‘Beguiling … A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.’ Boston GlobeOne August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural, she seemed to come from another world. And suddenly, the world seemed ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning.But Galchen didn’t want to write about the puma. She had never been interested in babies, or in mothers before. Now everything seemed directly related to them and she specifically wanted to write about other things because it might mean she was really, covertly, learning something about babies, or about being near babies.The result is Little Labours, a slanted enchanted miscellany. Galchen writes about babies in art (with wrongly shaped head) and babies in literature (rarer than dogs or abortions, often monstrous); about the effort of taking a passport photo for a baby not yet able to hold up her head and the frightening prevalence of orange as today’s chic colour for baby gifts; about Frankenstein as a sort of baby and a baby as a sort of Godzillas. In doing so she opens up an odd and tender world of wonder.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2017123 kr
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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.‘Beguiling … A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.’ Boston GlobeOne August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural, she seemed to come from another world. And suddenly, the world seemed ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning.But Galchen didn’t want to write about the puma. She had never been interested in babies, or in mothers before. Now everything seemed directly related to them and she specifically wanted to write about other things because it might mean she was really, covertly, learning something about babies, or about being near babies.The result is Little Labours, a slanted enchanted miscellany. Galchen writes about babies in art (with wrongly shaped head) and babies in literature (rarer than dogs or abortions, often monstrous); about the effort of taking a passport photo for a baby not yet able to hold up her head and the frightening prevalence of orange as today’s chic colour for baby gifts; about Frankenstein as a sort of baby and a baby as a sort of Godzillas. In doing so she opens up an odd and tender world of wonder.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2021231 kr
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‘Riveting’ Margaret Atwood‘I loved this book intensely’ Lauren Groff GuardianThe plague is spreading. The hundred year war is beginning. Katharina Kepler is believed to be a witch.Known for her herbal remedies and successful children – among them Johannes, Imperial Mathematician and author of the laws of planetary motion – Katharina’s life is changed by an accusation of witchcraft. Facing financial ruin, torture and even execution, she tells her side of the story.Witty, engaging and vividly imagined, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch draws on historical documents to illuminate a society undone by collective aggression and hysterical fear – a narrative with true resonance for today.‘Darkly funny … Her prose, which recalls Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, is light, pared back and subtly archaic’ Financial Times‘Superbly voiced … funny’ Telegraph‘A magical brew of absurdity and brutality’ Washington Post‘Galchen expertly weaves together a story told from multiple perspectives, showing how easy it is for a mob mentality to take hold in a climate of fear and ignorance when a woman simply exists outside of the norm’ New York Times
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
288 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
343 kr
Kommande
E-bok
Engelska, 2021186 kr
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Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen’s writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time—the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear.The year is 1619, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katherina Kepler is accused of being a witch.An illiterate widow, Katherina is known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It’s enough to make anyone jealous, and Katherina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone’s business. So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katherina calls her, the Werewolf) accuses Katherina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill, Katherina is in trouble. Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin, torture, and even execution, Katherina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets.Provocative and entertaining, Galchen’s bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society, and a family, undone by superstition, the state, and the mortal convulsions of history.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
162 kr
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In this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers—Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Djuna Barnes, Mavis Gallant—is zero, that orange is the new baby pink, that The Tale of Genji has no plot but plenty of drama about paternity, that babies exude an intoxicating black magic, and that a baby is a goldmine.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
190 kr
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Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book—a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen’s new book—contains a list of “Things That Make One Nervous.” And wouldn’t the blessed event top almost anyone’s list?Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted literary miscellany. Varying in length from just a sentence or paragraph to a several-page story or essay, Galchen’s puzzle pieces assemble into a shining, unpredictable, mordant picture of the ordinary-extraordinary nature of babies and literature. Anecdotal or analytic, each part opens up an odd and tender world of wonder. The 47 Ronin; the black magic of maternal love; babies morphing from pumas to chickens; the quasi-repellent concept of “women writers”; origami-ophilia in Oklahoma as a gateway drug to a lifelong obsession with Japan; discussions of favorite passages from the Heian masterpieces Genji and The Pillow Book; the frightening prevalence of orange as today’s new chic color for baby gifts; Frankenstein as a sort of baby; babies gold mines; babies as tiny Godzillas …Little Labors–atomized and exploratory, conceptually byzantine and freshly forthright–delights.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
269 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
269 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2019264 kr
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“Rivka Galchen delivers joy and cleverness reminiscent of The Phantom Tollbooth, Alice in Wonderland, and Hayao Miyazaki movies” (NPR, Best Books of 2019) in Rat Rule 79, a brain-twisting adventure story about friendship, growing up, and peanut-butter-pickle sandwiches.
Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She’s about to have yet another birthday in a new place without friends. On the eve of turning thirteen, Fred sees something strange in the living room: her mother, dressed for a party, standing in front of an enormous paper lantern—which she steps into and disappears.
Fred follows her and finds herself in the Land of Impossibility—a loopily illogical place where time has been outlawed by a mad Rat Queen, along with birthday parties and, most cruelly, peanut butter. Fred meets Downer, a downcast white elephant, and Gogo, a pugnacious mongoose mother of seventeen, who help her in her quest to find her mom. Together they must brave dungeons, Insult Fish, a Know-It-Owl, Fearsome Ferlings, and ultimately the Rat Queen herself—and solve an ageless riddle to escape certain doom.
Gorgeously illustrated and reminiscent of The Phantom Tollbooth and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Rivka Galchen’s Rat Rule 79 is an instant classic for curious readers of all ages.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021, 6-9 år
232 kr
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Inbunden, Tyska, 2024
259 kr
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E-bok
Tyska, 2016289 kr
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Die Erzählungen der kanadisch-amerikanischen Autorin Rivka Galchen, «Amerikanische Erfindungen», verbinden Psychologie, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften und führen ihre Protagonisten wie Leser immer wieder auf neues Terrain. So geht es, wenn man lernt, der eigenen Wahrnehmung nicht zu trauen.In einer dieser blühend phantasievollen Storys laufen einer Frau ihre Möbel davon. In einer anderen nimmt die Erzählerin eine Bestellung für Knoblauch-Huhn entgegen, ohne dem hungrigen Anrufer zu sagen, dass sie gar keine Imbissbude ist. In einer dritten Erzählung geht es um Ehe, Beziehung und Einsamkeit. Eine Frau ignoriert beharrlich, dass ihr Mann einen Blog mit dem Namen Ich-hasse-meine-Frau-Dot-Blogspot-Dot-Com betreibt.All diese Storys, die zunächst so tun, als entstammten sie unserem realistischen Alltag, öffnen jählings verborgene Pforten in Schicksale und Welten, die uns nicht so vertraut sind. Ob die davonlaufenden Möbel, die Mysterien des Tunguska-Ereignisses, ein durch Geräusche sprechendes Haus oder die Finessen des Zeitreisens – das Phantasierte und das Erlebte, das Banale und das Erhabene sind in Galchens Welt nur durch eine zart irisierende Wahrnehmung getrennt. Wundersames geschieht, und zugleich stehen die Storys in geheimem Austausch mit kanonischen Erzählungen der Weltliteratur, von Gogols «Nase» über Keats'' «Ode an eine griechische Urne» bis hin zu Borges'' «Aleph».
E-bok
Tyska, 2024227 kr
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«Ich liebe dieses Buch!» Lauren GroffEin fesselnder Roman über den wohl bekanntesten deutschen Hexenprozess gegen Katharina Kepler, die Mutter des Astronomen und Physikers Johannes Kepler, erzählt aus der Sicht einer starken, unabhängigen Frau. Leonberg, kurz vor Ausbruch des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs: Der kaiserliche Astronom und Protestant Johannes Kepler ist mit den gewagten Thesen seines heliozentrischen Weltbildes bei den württembergischen Herrschern nicht sonderlich beliebt und muss ins Exil. In der Zwischenzeit hält man sich an seiner Mutter Katharina schadlos und beschuldigt sie der Hexerei. Rivka Galchen schreibt aus Sicht «Kätherlin» Keplers, einer unabhängig denkenden, im besten Sinne «eigenwilligen» Frau von diesem historisch belegten, langjährigen Hexenprozess (1615–21) und stellt sich und uns die Frage, wie wirkmächtig selbstständig handelnde Frauen in der Historie waren. In Galchens Roman prallen Welten aufeinander, politisch, religiös und gesellschaftlich, an einem historischen Wendepunkt vor Krieg, Pest und einsetzender Renaissance.«Dieser Roman enthält zahlreiche Lektionen für unsere eigene Zeit, über die Macht von Furcht und Aberglauben, Böses entstehen zu lassen. Dabei verzücken Galchens spielerisch poetische Sätze wie die Magie in Märchen.» Oprah Winfrey «Galchen verwebt verschiedene Perspektiven und zeigt, wie leicht sich in einem Klima der Angst und Ignoranz eine Mobmentalität durchsetzen kann, wenn eine Frau einfach nur außerhalb der Norm steht.» The New York Times
E-bok
Spanska, 2024102 kr
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Una tarde cualquiera en Nueva York, el psiquiatra Leo Liebenstein se da cuenta de que la mujer que ha entrado en su casa con un perro y actúa como Rema —su esposa de origen argentino sobre la que sabe casi todo pero también, en cierto sentido, poco y nada— no es Rema. O él cree que no es Rema. El simulacro, como él la llama, parece su mujer «representada por alguien un poco mayor». El doctor Liebenstein, que narra la historia, emprende entonces la búsqueda de su esposa real en simultáneo con la búsqueda de uno de sus pacientes, que ha desaparecido, y cuya psicosis (la creencia en que puede controlar el clima) se encuentra tratando con una terapia experimental ideada por Rema: encargarle misiones atmosféricas en nombre del meteorólogo Tzvi Gal-Chen, miembro de la Real Academia de Meteorología. Todas estas variables se combinan en la resolución del misterio de la sustitución de Rema: el paciente perdido en acción, las investigaciones de Tzvi Gal-Chen, el origen argentino de Rema y su pasado familiar, la burocracia de la Real Academia de Meteorología. De modo que la pesquisa lo lleva primero a Buenos Aires y luego a la Patagonia, donde algunos de los enigmas se resuelven y otros, por supuesto, se despliegan.Comedia de enredos, historia de detectives, escrita a la manera de un relato clínico, Perturbaciones atmosféricas es ante todo una novela deliciosa sobre la dimensión ficcional de lo real, o la dimensión real de la ficción, que juega además con el costado poético de los lenguajes técnicos, el carácter tragicómico de las burocracias institucionales y la intuición de que el amor es, en esencia, un estado delirante.
E-bok
Spanska, 202695 kr
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Si hay algo que caracteriza la narrativa de Rivka Galchen es la precisión de sus extravagancias. En los relatos que integran este volumen —en el que caben fantasmas y viajes en el tiempo, madres e hijas que buscan un lenguaje común, padres ausentes pero encantadores, mujeres que adquieren nuevas partes del cuerpo o pierden sus posesiones— los personajes se aferran a distintas ilusiones siempre a bordo de una lógica hilarante y, a su modo irracional, muy lúcida y querible.Llena de guiños, citas, juegos y homenajes, La región de la desemejanza puede pensarse como un ejercicio de conversación con cuentos canónicos de grandes autores. Es, ante todo, un artefacto narrativo sumamente disfrutable, que presentamos por primera vez al español en la maravillosa traducción de Daniela Bentancur.
E-bok
Spanska, 202395 kr
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Pequeñas labores es una amalgama literaria singular y embriagadora que encuentra su principal fuente de inspiración en el fascinante El libro de la almohada, la obra maestra del periodo Heian escrita por la dama de la corte Sei Shōnagon. Igual que en aquel magnífico ensayo digresivo, pieza inaugural del género conocido como zuihitsu, la prosa de Galchen traspasa las fronteras de los géneros para revelarnos las pesadumbres, debilidades y cavilaciones de una escritora excepcional que atraviesa la experiencia común y al mismo tiempo extraordinaria de la maternidad con enorme perspicacia y sentido del humor.Un prodigioso gabinete de curiosidades, historias, listas y apuntes compuesto desde el asombro de la propia vivencia por una de las autoras más sensibles, talentosas y elegantes de nuestra época.«Cada bocado literario está imbuido del ingenio y el encanto únicos de Galchen». —Publishers Weekly«La proposición implícita de Galchen —que los bebés pueden ser objeto de una obra de arte seria, que podemos arrullar y pensar al mismo tiempo— resulta sorprendente, incluso radical, en un mundo donde la maternidad y el intelectualismo aún se encuentran instintivamente en desacuerdo. Puede que sea un libro pequeño, pero desde luego no es un libro menor». —NPR«No sabría cómo describir este libro, y creo que ese es parte de su encanto». —Julieta Venegas
E-bok
Spanska, 2023122 kr
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La anciana Katharina Kepler, madre de uno de los más célebres astrónomos de todos los tiempos, Johannes Kepler, es acusada de brujería por vecinos envidiosos. Se la culpa de envenenar, lesionar y matar animales y personas. Aunque «ni siquiera puedo ganar al backgammon», le dice ella a su vecino y tutor legal en un relato oral que recorre las peripecias de su juicio y, con ellas, el universo a menudo delirante pero también atroz de las cazas de brujas en la Europa moderna. Todo el mundo sabe que tu madre es una bruja es ese relato, al que se suman las voces de aquel vecino, del hijo astrónomo, y los testimonios de testigos y acusadores, en una obra polifónica que se arma, capa tras capa, a partir de rumores, chismes, noticias falsas, sobre aquello escuchado y deformado en el mercado, en las calles del pueblo, en los panfletos y las panaderías, como un runrún que, al crecer en intensidad, se vuelve también más eficaz en confundir los hechos y ocultar la verdad. Pero si este libro es sobre cómo se transmiten ciertas cosas, en primer lugar la información, lo es también en un sentido más íntimo, al presentar los vínculos afectivos como formas de pasar ciertas herencias y saberes con los que plantarse ante los huracanes pasajeros de la mentira y la calumnia.Traducida al español por primera vez en esta edición, Todo el mundo sabe que tu madre es una bruja es entretenida como una novela de aventuras, de un humor sutil y una soltura literaria deslumbrante.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
102 kr
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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.‘Beguiling … A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.’ Boston GlobeOne August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural, she seemed to come from another world. And suddenly, the world seemed ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning.But Galchen didn’t want to write about the puma. She had never been interested in babies, or in mothers before. Now everything seemed directly related to them and she specifically wanted to write about other things because it might mean she was really, covertly, learning something about babies, or about being near babies.The result is Little Labours, a slanted enchanted miscellany. Galchen writes about babies in art (with wrongly shaped head) and babies in literature (rarer than dogs or abortions, often monstrous); about the effort of taking a passport photo for a baby not yet able to hold up her head and the frightening prevalence of orange as today’s chic colour for baby gifts; about Frankenstein as a sort of baby and a baby as a sort of Godzillas. In doing so she opens up an odd and tender world of wonder.