Emily Prager is een boeiende Amerikaanse stem wiens werk de complexiteit van de menselijke ervaring onderzoekt met een onderscheidende literaire stijl. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een inzichtelijke verkenning van universele thema's, gepresenteerd door een unieke narratieve benadering die lezers boeit. Pragers achtergrond biedt een rijke reeks ervaringen die haar verhalen informeren, waardoor ze verhalen kan creëren die diep resoneren. Ze benadert haar vak met een scherp intellect en een diepgaand begrip van taal, wat haar bijdragen aan de literatuur zowel significant als memorabel maakt.
Drawing from her own childhood experiences in Taiwan, Emily Prager weaves a rich tapestry of storytelling in her acclaimed works. Her novels, stories, and essays, such as A Visit from the Footbinder and In the Missionary Position, showcase her unique perspective and literary talent. Prager's writing often explores themes of cultural identity and personal growth, making her voice both distinctive and resonant in contemporary literature.
Emily Prager's new novel is the revenge of Lolita. It retells Nabokov's controversial masterpiece in the half-innocent, half sly voice of the nymphet herself. Or rather a late 1990's version of her sassy, worryingly prococious, sexy, pain-in-the-ass Lucky Linderhof, or just a kid who's had to learn to talk and move fast? When the story begins Lucky is at the juvenile detention facility, waiting trial for murder. . . Roger Fishbite is what she calls her Humbert Humbert, the writ er to whom her dippy, beautiful, dysfunctional mother rents out the apartment downstairs. He has a `fisheye' look he gives her when her mo ther's out of sight. Like Nabakov's Lolita this is a perverse and disturbing sexual comedy, retold with a provocative late 90's spin. An unputdownable story, and a razor-sharp indictment of a society that asks four year olds to wiggle and pout as beauty queens but turns a blind eye when the Roger Fishbites get the wrong idea.
A provocative and darkly humorous novel in which Eve, at odds with love and life, becomes obsessed with the stories of women in Nazi Germany who were influenced or betrayed by the myth of the master race. The American author also wrote Clea and Zeus Divorce and A Visit from the Footbinder.
"After ten years of marriage and acclaim, the great Clea and Zeus are divorcing -- and since all their life together has been turned into art, so will they dramatize their divorce. In their last TV special, they enact their glittering history and stage their final breakup..."
Emily Prager's sensational first book of fiction, which was acclaimed as "splendid and original" (New York Times), is now available in the popular Vintage Contemporaries series.