
Description
In Ayse Papatya Bucak's dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount gas explosions and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating, and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak's stories confront the nature of memory with humor and myth, performance and authenticity.
Product Details
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Publish Date | August 25, 2020 |
Pages | 224 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780393358346 |
Dimensions | 8.1 X 5.4 X 0.6 inches | 0.4 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
A surrealist wunderkammer in which the lines between history and myth, reality and performance, and the cultural and personal are blurred and redrawn.-- "Millions"
Bucak's luminous debut taps folklore and real life to flesh out complex characters with an agile, inventive hand.-- "O, The Oprah Magazine"
Cerebral yet high-spirited.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
The author astutely deploys a range of styles and techniques that create a cerebral, multifarious collection. Bucak's remarkable, inventive, and humane debut marks her as a writer to watch.-- "Publisher's Weekly (starred review)"
A wonder cabinet of stories [each] so singular and marvelous.--Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble
This collection absolutely glows with life.--Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State
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