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Blue Ticket

Autor Sophie Mackintosh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2021

Într-o lume distopică unde destinul biologic este pecetluit în momentul primei menstruații, timpul și locul devin coordonate ale unei captivități mascate sub forma ordinii sociale. Blue Ticket ne introduce într-un univers în care fetele se prezintă la o stație de loterie pentru a-și afla viitorul: un bilet alb înseamnă maternitate, în timp ce un bilet albastru, cel primit de protagonista Calla, promite libertatea față de povara creșterii copiilor. Această alegere a cadrului narativ este esențială deoarece elimină conceptul de opțiune personală, transformând biologia într-un verdict administrativ de neschimbat. Observăm cum Sophie Mackintosh construiește o fabulă feministă cu un ton evocativ și oniric, explorând spațiul tensionat dintre dorința umană și controlul statal. Ca și Blue Hour de Tiffany Clarke Harrison, acest roman investighează ambivalența față de maternitate și traumele corpului feminin, însă, în timp ce lucrarea lui Harrison se ancorează în realitatea socială a Americii contemporane, Blue Ticket proiectează aceste temeri într-un cadru mitic, aproape ireal. Stilul este precis, dar bântuitor, lăsând să se vadă violența sistemică ce pulsează sub suprafața unei vieți aparent libere. Subliniem continuitatea tematică față de opera sa anterioară, The Water Cure. Dacă în volumul precedent autoarea examina izolarea și supraviețuirea într-un mediu ostil, aici ea mută lupa asupra identității și a modului în care o femeie își poate revendica sinele atunci când societatea i-a refuzat dreptul de a-și dori altceva. Este o explorare viscerală a instinctelor care supraviețuiesc chiar și în cele mai rigide sisteme de castă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241986691
ISBN-10: 0241986699
Pagini: 285
Dimensiuni: 132 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Blue Ticket cititorilor care apreciază proza atmosferică și temele de critică socială subtilă. Este o lectură despre curajul de a-ți chestiona locul într-o lume care îți spune cine trebuie să fii. Veți câștiga o perspectivă tulburătoare asupra libertății și a modului în care corpul feminin devine un teritoriu politic, totul într-un stil literar rafinat, specific unei autoare aflate pe lista scurtă a celor mai importanți tineri scriitori britanici.


Despre autor

Sophie Mackintosh este o voce proeminentă a literaturii britanice contemporane, recunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina elementele de distopie cu o sensibilitate poetică acută. Romanul său de debut, The Water Cure, a fost nominalizat la prestigiosul Man Booker Prize, confirmându-i talentul de a scrie despre vulnerabilitate și control. Stilul său este adesea descris ca fiind eteric și tensionat, concentrându-se pe experiențele interioare ale femeilor aflate în situații limită. Blue Ticket îi consolidează reputația de observator atent al dinamicii de putere și al identității de gen.


Notă biografică

Sophie Mackintosh is the author of The Water Cure, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award 2019. She has also won the White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago/Stylist Short Story Competition, and has been published in Granta, The White Review and TANK magazine among others. Her second novel, Blue Ticket, comes out in summer 2020.

Recenzii

Definitely don't miss the return of Sophie Mackintosh... Blue Ticket gets to the root of women's ambivalence and confusion around becoming mothers set against an unsettling dystopia; she's amazing
Dreamlike, tense, compelling... Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell's 1984 or Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale... Piercing moments of wisdom and insight drive toward a pitch-perfect ending
The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder - be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes
Even more hallucinatory and spiralled than her first [novel]... Terrifying and enchanting in equal measure
The Handmaid's Tale as told by David Lynch... A bona fide chase narrative as well as a polyvalent, dream-like allegory of pregnancy and bodily change - not to mention the vortex of judgement that surrounds womanhood... Mackintosh is part of an exciting generation of writers, including Daisy Johnson and Julia Armfield... Blue Ticket stands apart from the crowd
One of the most disquieting novels I've read in a long time, Blue Ticket will worms its way under your skin and haunt your dreams
Gripping, ethereal, atmospheric... Mackintosh handles haziness deliberately and with poise, demonstrating the near impossibility of trying to articulate or rationalise maternal desire
Mackintosh writes with a language drawn from the body.... Impressionistic and haunting in equal measure
Visceral, primal, striking... This is a potent exploration of biology and agency, motherhood and childlessness, which confirms [Mackintosh] as a writer of note
Mackintosh is part of a new generation of female writers creating feminist fictions that relate uncannily to our dystopian times... [Her] fiction lives, to an unusual extent, in its musicality, in the rhythm and spareness of its sentences
For anyone currently waiting with bated breath for the new season of 'The Handmaid's Tale', Booker-longlisted author Sophie Mackintosh's new novel is a feminist dystopia to quench your thirst
A thoughtful and haunting exploration of freedom, fate and a woman's right to choose her destiny
Chilling, timely, thought-provoking
[Mackintosh] writes with an ethereal lyricism that is equally capable of fragility and violence
Blue Ticket offers a completely different angle on a familiar subject... Like all good speculative fiction, [it] reminds us of a truth in the real world
A compelling, unsettling tale... Part-horror, part thriller, and part pregnant-lesbian love story
A dark fable... Mackintosh sensitively conveys resonant questions about motherhood, female solidarity, queer love, and bodily autonomy
Cool, disturbing, it deals with emotionally fraught material. Mackintosh traffics in ambivalence and ambiguity... What Calla really wants, the author shows us, isn't necessarily a baby; it's an answer
A spare, haunting tale of autonomy and free will
Both claustrophobic and expansive, dream-like and heart-stoppingly tense. You will want to languish in its world for a very long time
This book left me breathless - it is gloriously subversive in its exploration of motherhood and desire. I'll be pressing it on everyone
Strange and luminous, spare and precise... A thrilling exploration of what it means to follow one's own longing to the point of destruction and beyond
Utterly exquisite - clever and brilliant and heartbreaking. From the dusty road to the salving forest, I absolutely adored it
Chilling, haunting, heartbreaking... Mackintosh brings a new sense of pathos to the dystopian novel... A moving and original meditation on freedom, fate, and women's rage
A dreamlike exploration of free will and desire
A must for Handmaid's Tale aficionados
Powerful, Ishiguro-esque... Sophie Mackintosh lays bare many of the fears and realities that face any society's women as they contemplate when their choices begin, and where they might end
Told with ragged prose that catches the breath, [Blue Ticket] articulates the irrepressible desires and wounds that can lie deep within, marked by a claustrophobia that never stops pressing in from the margins. This unsettling reimagining of the anxieties and pressures around motherhood lays bare the alienation that comes when your body is not truly yours
A darkly brilliant allegory... Astute, revelatory and heartbreaking
A rich, sharp, and daring book. To read Blue Ticket is to feel so vigorously alert you can feel the world turning
Mesmerising
Mackintosh poses urgent questions about social expectations and free will that are relevant to all realities

Descriere scurtă

From the author longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and selected as one of the Best Young British Novelists of the Decade:

An unsettling and addictive feminist fable for fans of Hot Milk, Unsettled Ground and Klara and the Sun

Recommended by Stylist,
Evening Standard, Esquire, Red, Daily Mail, Oprah Magazine, LitHub, and Belletrist Book Club

'Be sure to read everything Sophie Mackintosh writes' Deborah Levy

'Definitely don't miss the return of Sophie Mackintosh
' Stylist

Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the lottery station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. Or, to put it another way, you have no choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back.

But what if the life you're given is the wrong one?

Blue Ticket
is a devastating enquiry into free will and the fraught space of motherhood. Bold and chilling, it pushes beneath the skin of female identity and patriarchal violence, to the point where human longing meets our animal bodies.

'Dreamlike, tense, compelling, [with] a pitch-perfect ending' The New York Times

'Gripping, ethereal, atmospheric' Sunday Times

'Thoughtful and haunting' Observer

'Terrifying and enchanting in equal measure' LitHub


'Blue Ticket will worms its way under your skin and haunt your dreams' Red