Purity (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
124
Utgivningsdatum
2024-06-04
Förlag
And Other Stories
Översättare
Nichola Smalley
Illustrationer
Illustrations
Dimensioner
197 x 131 x 17 mm
Vikt
204 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781913505981

Purity

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The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a colour wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief finds himself in books. And cleaners reluctantly go on cleaning. With gravity and humour, against the backdrop of a violent civilization, people are depicted as fallen, or waiting to fall, rendered by Tich with the fury, compassion and emotional complexity of Kendrick Lamar.
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Purity is a strong, challenging book, emotionally charged, intricate and ceaselessly fascinating, poetic and tender, even humorous in its dark way, through all its roughness, deep grief, blood and grime. Aftonbladet When Tich combines his concrete social realism with a slip into hypnotic stream of consciousness, it become completely brilliant. Tich writes interpersonal tenderness and love just as sharply as he depicts pain, and powerful resistance. Gteborgs-Posten A feverish kind of despair about the eternal machine that is the abuse of power thrusts Tichs disparate voices into an affecting whole. Svenska Dagbladet As in all his best books, Tich is an entertainer. Funny and drastic, smart and tough, without ever letting the tragedy become comedy. It is the style, between elegant novelistic prose and the colloquial, that lends these fragmentary stories a glint of something almost cheerful; the laughter when, staring into the abyss, you realise it is staring right back at you. Expressen How something can be simultaneously so powerful and so precise is hard to comprehend. But as a depiction of human existence in todays evermore precarious labour market, it is brilliant. The truth is that its rare to find literary prose, or for that matter political criticism, as refined as this. Dagens Nyheter Tich describes disturbing incidents with bracing candour. Taken together, these stories form an unforgettable tableau of life on the edge. Publishers Weekly A dizzying look inside the heads of people at the margins. Kirkus Reviews These are nimble stories, nauseating and discordant, that shuffle your feelings and loyalties as you read them. Sarah Gale, Literary Review What Tichs written its a great collection of stories as well as a lucid and biting political commentary on the rough position of current migrants to Sweden is also a manifesto against the strictures placed upon the narratorial voice and the tie between narrator and author, created by the hacks and essayists of our reality and reinforced by the recent prominence of autofictions and literary obsession with identity. Jonah Howell, The Rumpus Do you enjoy your short fiction with bleak imagery, unsettling twists, and characters discovering their capacity for antisocial behaviour? Welcome to Andrzej Tichs Purity, then. Tobias Carroll, Words without Borders

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Andrzej Tich was born in Prague to a Polish mother and a Czech father and has lived in Sweden since 1981. In Sweden, Wretchedness was a finalist for the August Prize and won the Eyvind Johnson Prize, while Purity was a finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize. A translator Swedish and Norwegian literature, Nichola Smalley is also publicist at And Other Stories. In 2015 she finished a PhD exploring the use of contemporary urban vernaculars in Swedish and UK rap and literature at UCL. Her translations range from a Swedish book about Brazilian football (Jogo Bonito by Henrik Brando Jnsson (Yellow Jersey Press)), to the latest novel by Norwegian superstar Jostein Gaarder, An Unreliable Man (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).