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Bluets
**AS SEEN ON BBC2's BETWEEN THE COVERS** A Guardian Book of the Year Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief. Much like Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, Bluets has passed between lovers in the ecstasy of new love, and been pressed into the hands of the heartbroken. Visceral, learned, and acutely lucid, Bluets is a slim feat of literary innovation and grace, never before published in the UK.
Apeirogon: A Novel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers—one Palestinian, one Israeli, both connected by grief and working together for peace—from the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin “A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.”—Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire FINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent...
The Book of Barcelona
A slighted wife escapes her wealthy family for the evening and stumbles into the city's red-light district... The head of security at Barcelona's container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak in... An elderly woman brings home a machine that will turn her body into atoms, so she can leave behind a city that is no longer recognisable... Historically, Barcelona is a city of resistance and independence; a focal point for Catalan identity, as well as the capital of Spanish republicanism. Nestled between the Mediterranean coast and mountains, this burgeoning city has also been home to some of the greatest names in modern art and architecture, and attracts visitors and migrants from all over the world. As a result, the city is a melting-pot of cultures, and the stories gathered here offer a miscellany of form and genre, fittingly reminiscent of one of Gaudi's mosaics. From the boy-giant outgrowing his cramped flat on the city's outskirts, to the love affair that begins in a launderette, we meet characters who are reclaiming the independence of their city by challenging common misconceptions and telling its myriad truths.
Reflections in a Golden Eye
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Reflections in a Golden Eye" by Carson McCullers. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Translation Studies and Ecology
This innovative collection explores the points of contact between translation practice and ecological culture by focusing on the relationship between ecology and translation. The volume’s point of departure is the idea that translations, like all human activities, have a relational basis. Since they depend on places and communities to which they are addressed as well as on the cultural environment which made them possible, they should be understood as situated cultural practices, governed by a particular political ecology. Through the analysis of phenomena that relate translation and ecological culture (such as the development of ecofeminism; the translation of texts on nature; translation...
Coragre
¿És possible escriure un llibre hilarant sobre la ruptura d'un matrimoni perfecte? Si l'escriptora és Nora Ephron, la resposta és un sí rotund. Una història que lliga l'adulteri, , la teràpia de grup i l'estofat de carn, i que ens demostra que una bona comèdia necessita la seva dosi d'angoixa com una bona salsa necessita farina i mantega. La Rachel Samstat, embarassada de set mesos, un dia descobreix que el seu marit, Mark, està enamorat d'una altra dona. La Rachel, que es guanya la vida escrivint llibres de cuina, troba en el menjar un cert bàlsam i consol; així, mentre es debat entre l'intent de recuperar en Mark i el desig de veure'l mort, la Rachel troba temps per oferir-nos algunes de les seves receptes preferides. Coragre és l'única novel·la de Nora Ephron; una història deliciosa explicada amb l'humor àcid propi de l'autora, una muntanya russa d'amor, traïció, pèrdua i, el més satisfactori, venjança.
Where I Live Now
The New York Times–bestselling author of So Long contemplates the human condition in this short story collection for fans of Grace Paley & Alice Munro. The elusive nature of happiness is a compelling theme in Where I Live Now. The survivors in these stories—many of them society's marginal or excluded people, fighting alcohol or drug addiction, bearing emotional scars—recognize it all too well. They mourn the lost dreams of youth, the roads not taken. They suffer the damage life inflicts: the ache of loneliness, the pain of separation, the fear of death. Set mainly in Los Angeles, Lucia Berlin’s gritty working-class stories bridge the gap between the Americas—rich and poor, North an...
The Art of Cruelty
"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.
Exhalació
En Bruce Pike, conegut com a Pikelet, creix en un petit poble d'una bellesa esfereïdora i salvatge on, a la nit, el rugit de les onades alimenta els seus somnis d'aventura. És un adolescent solitari i introvertit fins que topa amb en Loonie, un noi de la seva edat que va pel mal camí, i es fan amics. En Loonie l'arrossega fins a la platja, territori que els seus pares li han prohibit trepitjar, i junts passen els dies, van a escola, fan campana i competeixen a veure qui aguanta més sota l'aigua. Un dia, al mar, coneixen en Sando, un antic campió de surf de trenta-sis anys que ha viatjat per tot el món perseguint amb la seva planxa l'onada més alta, posant-se en llocs perillosos i en s...
Shy
De vegades l'adolescència s'assembla més a morir-se que no a fer-se gran i esprémer la vida, especialment si estàs atrapat en una espiral d'aïllament i vergonya i ets incapaç de trobar una sortida enmig de la boira de la frustració i la ràbia. És el cas del Shy, que amb setze anys arrossega un extens currículum de delinqüència juvenil: l'han expulsat de dues escoles, s'ha barallat amb la mare i ara està intern a Last Chance, una institució per rehabilitar els joves més violents i alienats d'Anglaterra. Quan comença la novel·la, el Shy està fugint del centre en plena nit, en direcció al llac, escoltant drum-and-bass als cascos i carregant un sac ple de pedrots a l'esquena. ...
