My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water - Softcover

Steinbeck, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1850773181 ISBN 13: 9781850773184

Verlag: Darf Publishers Ltd, 2018

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Críticas:

If this is the next generation, then God help us! - Elke Heidenreich, SRF;Splendidly overwrought! - Frankfurter Rundschau;The hell of adolescence is a flashing fairground with derailing rollercoasters. Lucidly absurdist prose fluctuating between panic and the comical, and of the finest quality - Sabine Vogel, Berliner Zeitung;There's this breathless, surging prose style, a spectacular density of ideas; a pleasure in sonic association. - Sebastian Fanzun, NZZ;It's like a pilled up journey to hell through scenes taken straight out of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch - Anne-Sophie Scholl, Berner Zeitung;Unconventional, perplexing, irritating and wild - Sandra Trauner, Ostthuringer Zeitung;Here comes something extraordinary - Simone Keller, Basler Zeitung;Furious! - Perlentaucher;Just like an action-packed comic book - Julia Stephan, Zentralschweiz am Sonntag;Incredibly disturbing. - kaprizios;A novel like Breughel's Hell - - Sandra Trauner, Passauer Neue Presse;Literary institutions and creative writing courses probably don't have guidlines for this. It says 'novel` on the cover, but it enters the reader's mind as images - NZZ Bucher am Sonntag;After the final sentences of the book have come to an end it feels like you've awoken from a dream. One of those dreams that leaves you with a thumping heart and rubbing your eyes in disbelief. The complexity of emotions that Steinbeck achieves with her virtuosic language is astonishing. My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in Water is like reading a playground for fiction, where everything is allowed and where everything has a place. - Martina Keller, Viceversa;From the first page of Steinbeck's book it reads like a piece of unruly, flailing prose... In opposition to the tendency to build new monuments to realism, Steinbeck uses her unfettered imagination, which is unrivalled in the contemporary Swiss literary landscape - Daniel Faulhaber, TagesWoche;Michelle Steinbeck succeeds in creating strong imagery time and time again through her symbolic language. There's no doubt about it: the themes are universal and timeless. - Isabel Hemmel, Zuritipp;Michelle Steinbeck's debut novel is remarkable: her unique, sometimes breathless, at times breathtaking tone draws on the fantastical surrealist narrative tradition, but she nevertheless finds her own images and proves to be a humorous lateral thinker - Julian Schutt, SR;A successful balancing act between surrealism and critically observed reality. And in doing so, she pinpoints the mentality of contemporary society exactly: nothing is good enough and we can only hope for something better. - Seraina Jorg, St. Galler Tagblatt

Reseña del editor:

A young woman goes on a perilous journey in search of her absent father. What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting debut by young Swiss author Michelle Steinbeck. A child attacks Loribeth with an iron while she is sleeping. In retaliation Loribeth throws the iron onto the child from an upstairs window, packs the damaged body into a suitcase and sets off on her travels. Thus starts Steinbeck's unusual, poetic novella about a young woman's transition from childhood to adulthood.

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• Verlag: Darf Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1850773181
• ISBN 13: 9781850773184
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128