Everest: Shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prose Prize
Autor Ashani Lewisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 noi 2024
What happens when you reach Everest's peak? Is it everything you dreamed?
In a magnetic follow-up to Winter Animals, Ashani Lewis' debut collection takes a kaleidoscopic approach to desire - its obsessions, its grotesque demands and the distance it creates between us - and the strange things we stubbornly, hopefully, desperately expect from our lives.
A dying woman dedicates her life to Antarctic ice; an All-American star longs for a romance that defies convention - to the detriment of his carefully curated reputation; a woman seeking her exes' opinions on a breast augmentation takes us on a whirlwind tour of the complicated, intertwined lives of urbanites; a singer prepares for her film debut, pushing her humanity to its limits at an unusual acting school; a newlywed couple put their marriage to the ultimate test: Everest. In these twenty-one striking stories, Lewis creates a stark world of fleeting infatuations, violent compulsions, unexpected solace and the sombre ghost of memories.
Praise for WINTER ANIMALS:
'Thoughtful, intelligent and beautifully written . . . Lewis is definitely a new talent to watch' Marie Claire
'A dreamlike, piercing examination of privilege, youth and freedom' Cecile Pin
'Lewis is superbly talented' Katherine Rundell
'A remarkable novel: atmospheric as hell, beautiful and delightfully intelligent' Jenny Mustard
'A glittering, dark-edged tale . . . Exhilarating and fabulous, I raced through it' Priscilla Morris
'A debut full of ideas. I have the sense that this is the first of many new worlds' Telegraph
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780349703336
ISBN-10: 0349703337
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția Dialogue Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0349703337
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția Dialogue Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
A writer with a sharp, observational eye . . . She possesses a rare ability to write with both solemnity and ironic humour across the pages of a single story . . . Funny and astute, Lewis has a keen eye for both the echoing loneliness and transcendent moments of connection in our increasingly atomised lives.
What happens when you reach Everest's peak? Is it everything you dreamed?
In a magnetic follow-up to Winter Animals, Ashani Lewis' debut collection takes a kaleidoscopic approach to desire - its obsessions, its grotesque demands and the distance it creates between us - and the strange things we stubbornly, hopefully, desperately expect from our lives.
A dying woman dedicates her life to Antarctic ice; an All-American star longs for a romance that defies convention - to the detriment of his carefully curated reputation; a woman seeking her exes' opinions on a breast augmentation takes us on a whirlwind tour of the complicated, intertwined lives of urbanites; a singer prepares for her film debut, pushing her humanity to its limits at an unusual acting school; a newlywed couple put their marriage to the ultimate test: Everest. In these twenty-one striking stories, Lewis creates a stark world of fleeting infatuations, violent compulsions, unexpected solace and the sombre ghost of memories.
Praise for Winter Animals
'A dreamlike, piercing examination of privilege, youth and freedom' Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls
'A glittering, dark-edged tale of snow, hedonism, passion, friendship and squatting that explores what happens when a group of rich kids attempt to live out their questionable utopian ideals. Exhilarating and fabulous, I raced through it' Priscilla Morris, author of Black Butterflies
'A remarkable novel: atmospheric as hell, beautiful and delightfully intelligent. Its unique sentences sparkle with energy. Think The Secret History written by Raven Leilani' Jenny Mustard, author of Okay Days
'Lewis is definitely a new talent to watch' Marie Claire
'A debut full of ideas. I have the sense that this is the first of many new worlds' Telegraph
'Compelling' The Irish Times
What happens when you reach Everest's peak? Is it everything you dreamed?
In a magnetic follow-up to Winter Animals, Ashani Lewis' debut collection takes a kaleidoscopic approach to desire - its obsessions, its grotesque demands and the distance it creates between us - and the strange things we stubbornly, hopefully, desperately expect from our lives.
A dying woman dedicates her life to Antarctic ice; an All-American star longs for a romance that defies convention - to the detriment of his carefully curated reputation; a woman seeking her exes' opinions on a breast augmentation takes us on a whirlwind tour of the complicated, intertwined lives of urbanites; a singer prepares for her film debut, pushing her humanity to its limits at an unusual acting school; a newlywed couple put their marriage to the ultimate test: Everest. In these twenty-one striking stories, Lewis creates a stark world of fleeting infatuations, violent compulsions, unexpected solace and the sombre ghost of memories.
Praise for Winter Animals
'A dreamlike, piercing examination of privilege, youth and freedom' Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls
'A glittering, dark-edged tale of snow, hedonism, passion, friendship and squatting that explores what happens when a group of rich kids attempt to live out their questionable utopian ideals. Exhilarating and fabulous, I raced through it' Priscilla Morris, author of Black Butterflies
'A remarkable novel: atmospheric as hell, beautiful and delightfully intelligent. Its unique sentences sparkle with energy. Think The Secret History written by Raven Leilani' Jenny Mustard, author of Okay Days
'Lewis is definitely a new talent to watch' Marie Claire
'A debut full of ideas. I have the sense that this is the first of many new worlds' Telegraph
'Compelling' The Irish Times