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The Anthropologists de Aysegül Savas

The Anthropologists

Autor Aysegül Savas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iul 2025

Ce înseamnă, cu adevărat, să aparții unui loc atunci când rădăcinile tale sunt plantate în altă parte? În The Anthropologists, Aysegül Savaș explorează miza tăcută, dar profundă, a construirii unui cămin departe de casă. Îi urmărim pe Asya și Manu, un cuplu tânăr care navighează prin labirintul vizionărilor de apartamente dintr-un oraș străin, încercând să decidă ce tradiții merită păstrate și ce obligații familiale pot fi lăsate în urmă. Notăm cu interes felul în care Savaș transformă banalul în obiect de studiu: Asya, regizoare de documentare, privește lumea prin lentila unui observator social, filtrând realitatea prin gesturi mici, cum ar fi ritualurile dintr-un parc de cartier. Subliniem finețea cu care autoarea capturează sentimentul de derivă — părinți care îmbătrânesc la mii de kilometri distanță, în timp ce aici, în noul oraș, viața trebuie să prindă contur între patru pereți străini. Imaginați-vă tensiunea fragmentară și introspecția culturală din A Lover's Discourse de Xiaolu Guo, mutată într-un decor de explorare domestică și căutare a fericirii concrete. Reținem că, spre deosebire de atmosfera onirică și ușor neliniștitoare din lucrarea sa anterioară, White on White, Savaș alege aici o abordare mai caldă și mai luminoasă, deși la fel de precisă. Ritmul este unul contemplativ, așezat, invitând la o lectură lentă care să permită savurarea fiecărei observații despre dragostea modernă și despre arta de a deveni localnic într-o lume a migrației constante.

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ISBN-13: 9781639736683
ISBN-10: 1639736689
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA

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Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o proză elegantă despre identitate și intimitate în mediul urban. Este un roman ideal pentru cititorii care au apreciat stilul lui Sally Rooney și doresc o meditație profundă asupra modului în care ne construim ritualurile de cuplu. Veți câștiga o perspectivă proaspătă asupra modului în care micile detalii cotidiene definesc conceptul de „acasă” într-o lume globalizată.

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Aysegül Savas este o scriitoare apreciată pentru precizia sa stilistică și capacitatea de a sonda profunzimile vieții interioare. Printre lucrările sale anterioare se numără romanul White on White, lăudat pentru ritmul său hipnotic, și colecția de povestiri Long Distance, care explorează distanțele emoționale în era conectivității. În The Anthropologists, ea își confirmă talentul de a observa mecanismele subtile ale relațiilor umane, fiind considerată una dintre cele mai rafinate voci ale ficțiunii contemporane, apreciată inclusiv de personalități precum Barack Obama.

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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2024

‘An erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love... Asya and Manu could very well be a couple in a novel by Sally Rooney or Caleb Azumah Nelson.' GUARDIAN

​'Immaculately observed... I found myself not wanting The Anthropologists to end.' FINANCIAL TIMES

‘Savaş’ prose is an X-ray – an acute portrait of the tender frequencies that make a life.’ RAVEN LEILANI
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Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. Removed from the web of family and its obligations, what traditions and rituals should they establish together?

As they dream about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentary filmmaker, spends her days gathering footage from the neighbourhood park like an anthropologist observing local customs, anxious to know how people really live. ‘Forget about daily life,’ chides her grandmother on the phone, ‘no one cares about that.’

Meanwhile, life back in Asya and Manu's respective home countries continues – parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up – all just slightly beyond their reach. But the world they're making in their new city is growing, too, they hope. As they open up the horizons of their lives, what and whom will they hold onto, and what will they need to release?

Unfolding over a series of apartment viewings, late-night conversations, last rounds of drinks and lazy breakfasts, The Anthropologists is a soulful examination of home-building and modern love, written with Aysegül Savaş’ distinctive elegance, warmth and humour.
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Praise for THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS

‘The Anthropologists is about love, youth, and that most profound and elusive of subjects – happiness. Full of delicacy, wisdom and wit, this is another gorgeous work from one of my favourite writers.’ KATIE KITAMURA
  
‘Like Walter Benjamin, Ayşegül Savaş uncovers trapdoors to bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; like Henry James, she sees marriage as a mystery, unsoundably deep. The Anthropologists is mesmerising; I felt I read it in a single breath.’ GARTH GREENWELL
 
‘Yet another gorgeous, gorgeous book from Aysegül Savaş: she is an author who simply, and astoundingly, knows. Savaş knows hope. Savaş knows despair. Savaş knows joy, and malaise, and laughter and curiosity. There are worlds inside of Savaş' prose, and The Anthropologists is both a bright light and a map for how to be. A massively heartening achievement.’ BRYAN WASHINGTON

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‘An erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love… Asya and Manu could very well be a couple in a novel by Sally Rooney or Caleb Azumah Nelson… Don’t be deceived by Savaş’s cool, matter-of-fact tone – beneath it lie layers of wisdom, delicacy and subtlety… This is not your typical marriage novel, or immigrant/expat novel, or novel of the city – although it threads together all these tropes. In writing about “the slow and leisurely rot of a day”, with all its delights and anxieties, and in praising its “unremarkable grace”, as Asya hopes to do with her filming, the author has created something remarkable.’

‘A meticulous chronicle of circumspection, a knowing assessment of the motions we go through in cities, and a portrait of aspiration… I found myself not wanting The Anthropologists to end... Savaş’s interest is not in one destination, but in the minutiae of the couple’s daily lives… This immaculately observed book is about learning where those limits lie, and learning to live with them.’

'In this subtle and resonant novel, Savas charts the way we sometimes choose-and sometimes drift into-the path to our future'

'Utterly enchanting'

'It is a novel that takes as its subject the texture, routines and rituals of a particular lifestyle – itinerant and youthful, or at least untethered by children – and serves as sort of a field guide to its participants . . . One of the book's strengths lies in Savas's ability to capture the experience of life as an outsider in a new place'

‘Yet another gorgeous, gorgeous book from Aysegül Savaş: she is an author who simply, and astoundingly, knows. Savaş knows hope. Savaş knows despair. Savaş knows joy, and malaise, and laughter and curiosity. There are worlds inside of Savaş' prose, and The Anthropologists is both a bright light and a map for how to be. A massively heartening achievement.’

‘Like Walter Benjamin, Ayşegül Savaş uncovers trapdoors to bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; like Henry James, she sees marriage as a mystery, unsoundably deep. The Anthropologists is mesmerising; I felt I read it in a single breath.’ 

‘Savaş’s prose is an X-ray – an acute portrait of the tender frequencies that make a life.’

‘The Anthropologists is about love, youth, and that most profound and elusive of subjects – happiness. Full of delicacy, wisdom and wit, this is another gorgeous work from one of my favourite writers.’ 

'The Anthropologists captures love, coupledom, and the emigrant experience with breathtaking ease and truth. This detail-rich portrait of a marriage is refreshingly relatable, yet it is a relationship I've never before seen on the page. Savaş evokes the romantic sensibility of Alejandro Zambra; the profound everyday observations of Sigrid Nunez; the crisp intelligence of Rachel Cusk. One of the most intimate and deeply romantic novels I’ve read. I fell instantly in love. Whatever Savaş writes next, I will read.'

'2024 was the year of the breakup book . . . Here is an antidote. Manu and Asya's concerns are modest . . . It's a joy to be on this journey with them. Each sentence sings, and watching [them] find a home in each other rather than in the places they've been is defiantly, explicitly hopeful'

'What makes this slim novel sing are the intricately drawn ways the couple spends their time with the people around them, whether neighbours, friends, or family members. As Asya and Manu view apartments and imagine different futures for themselves, Savas crafts a remarkable narrative about the ordinary moments that fill our lives'

'Here, a unicorn: a propulsive, well-written novel about a couple in which both parties enjoy the other's company . . . The book feels a little like a magic trick. Through pitch-perfect observations, droll and intimate interactions, through attention and care, Aysegul Savas has conjured a page turner'

'A great love story about ageing parents, romantic love, and what it means to call a place home'