Junebat
- 120bladzijden
- 5 uur lezen
From award winning author John Elizabeth Stintzi, Junebat is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming.
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John Elizabeth Stintzi is een non-binaire auteur wiens proza en poëzie duiken in de complexiteit van menselijke identiteit en verbinding met het land. Hun werk wordt gekenmerkt door scherpe introspectie en een poëtische taal die complexe relaties tussen individuen en de wereld om hen heen verkent. Door suggestieve beelden en originele metaforen onderzoeken ze thema's als herinnering, verlies en de zoektocht naar iemands plaats in een steeds veranderend landschap. Het schrijven van Stintzi resoneert bij lezers vanwege de emotionele diepgang en literaire verfijning.
Vanishing Monuments
- 304bladzijden
- 11 uur lezen
A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia.
On June 2, 2016, a jogger in Central Park discovers a mass of stone in the reservoir, which soon transforms into a towering stratovolcano. This bizarre occurrence aligns with a surge of strange global phenomena. The narrative weaves mythic elements with stark realism, capturing the sensation of living in a world on fire. A diverse cast experiences personal and collective upheavals: an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City travels back 500 years to witness the fall of the Aztec Empire; a folktale scholar in Tokyo investigates a tale of a woman descending a mountain to wreak havoc; a white trans writer in Jersey City struggles to craft a sci-fi novel about an impossible civilization; a nurse with Doctors Without Borders aids Syrian refugees in Greece while grappling with the trauma of surviving a bombing in Afghanistan; and a nomadic herder in Mongolia transforms into a green, flowering creature determined to cleanse the planet's pollution. With its audacious structure and poetic prose, this novel presents a fiery tapestry of interconnected stories. Critics have praised it as a contemporary folktale that captures the tumultuous present, blending history, myth, and vision in a way that is both gripping and haunting.