Marimo, Mon Amour: A Novel
Autor Karen An-Hwei Lee Cuvânt înainte de K-Ming Changen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2026
A technocratic collapse erases an obscure poet from existence, she and her pet moss ball refuse to disappear
Marimo, Mon Amour is a surreal, contemplative novel set in the quarantined borough of Alphabet City, where a botched data migration leaves obscure poet Zinger Zingiber effectively erased from the record. Furloughed from her jobs as a dumpling-maker and asylum specialist, she withdraws to her apartment with only her pet moss ball, Marimo, for company. As the Bureau of Misidentification bans forbidden words and controls identity, Zinger appoints herself the “Minister of Loneliness,” observing a world suspended in time.
From this quiet refuge, Zinger meditates on solitude, the fragility of memory, and the small, ephemeral moments that become acts of meaning. Her narration drifts between dream and reality, blending whimsy with philosophical inquiry. Lyrical and recursive, the novel draws on the psychological depth of Dostoevsky and the surreal sensibilities of Italo Calvino and Yoko Ogawa as it explores agency a plague of absentia. Marimo, Mon Amour will appeal to readers of literary and speculative fiction, fans of surreal or philosophical narratives, and anyone drawn to meditations on isolation, resistance, and the endurance of the human spirit.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781573662185
ISBN-10: 1573662186
Pagini: 242
Ilustrații: 0 Figures
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția Fiction Collective 2
ISBN-10: 1573662186
Pagini: 242
Ilustrații: 0 Figures
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția Fiction Collective 2
Notă biografică
Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of the novels Sonata in K, The Maze of Transparencies, and Love Chronicles from the Octopodes. Her book of literary criticism, Anglophone Literatures in the Asian Diaspora, was selected for the Cambria Sinophone World Series. Lee has also authored several poetry collections, most recently The Beautiful Immunity.
Recenzii
“A natural habitat of language. An abecedarian cakewalk between verse and prose. Into what world could this possibly be? Book me a flight.These floating words are the beasts of dreams. This is Karen An-hwei Lee’s Ministry of Loveliness.” —Diane Glancy, author of Lazarus, the Intended Writings and Claiming Breath, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
“What starts off as a plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais…becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne and the Metaphysicals, scaled through the whimsy and universal wanderings of the Calvino of Cosmicomics—that is to say, all wrapped up in Karen An-hwei Lee's singular vision, a defining work from one of America’s purest products.” —Alvin Lu, author of Daydreamers
“A recipe rondo, a (paisley) pillow book of the plague, and a memorial to a time so recent as to be already forgotten, Karen An-hwei Lee gives us a reminder, written in her prose of exquisite and wise turnings, of alternate terms for isolation and contagion and rapture (and hygge and mamihlapinatapai). A natural city-world within which a timeless yearning sings amidst vibrating static rest–read the brilliant Lee, an Emissary of Bliss, so you can know what language can do.” —Eugene Lim, author of Space Bar, Search History, and Dear Cyborgs
“What starts off as a plague journal narrated by a chibi Rabelais…becomes by way of limitless lists, alliteration, and logophilia something darker and more serious, a meditation on meaning, death, and God in the manner of Donne and the Metaphysicals, scaled through the whimsy and universal wanderings of the Calvino of Cosmicomics—that is to say, all wrapped up in Karen An-hwei Lee's singular vision, a defining work from one of America’s purest products.” —Alvin Lu, author of Daydreamers
“A recipe rondo, a (paisley) pillow book of the plague, and a memorial to a time so recent as to be already forgotten, Karen An-hwei Lee gives us a reminder, written in her prose of exquisite and wise turnings, of alternate terms for isolation and contagion and rapture (and hygge and mamihlapinatapai). A natural city-world within which a timeless yearning sings amidst vibrating static rest–read the brilliant Lee, an Emissary of Bliss, so you can know what language can do.” —Eugene Lim, author of Space Bar, Search History, and Dear Cyborgs
Descriere
In quarantined Alphabet City, poet Zinger Zingiber is erased by a technocratic collapse and retreats to her apartment with her pet moss ball, Marimo. As she navigates a surreal world ruled by the Bureau of Misidentification, she reflects on memory, identity, displacement, and the fragile beauty of fleeting moments.