Alicia Kopf

Broschiertes Buch

Brother in Ice

Beschreibung

This hybrid novel uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist's own concerns as she comes of age as an artist, a daughter, and a sister to an autistic brother. Deserved winner of multiple awards upon its Catalan and Spanish publication, Brother in Ice is a richly rewarding journey into the unknown.

Autor

Alicia Kopf, born Girona, 1982, holds degrees in Fine Arts and Comparative Literature. Brother in Ice is the culmination of an artistic cycle of several exhibitions entitled Àrticantàrtic, including a 2013 solo show in Barcelona, Seal Sounds Under The Floor. She has participated in many prestigious exhibitions. Her awards include the GAC-DKV Prize for best young artist gallery exhibition, the Premi Documenta literary prize, and the Premi Llibreter awarded by booksellers. Based between Barcelona and Brooklyn, Mara Faye Lethem translates from Catalan and Spanish. She has translated many contemporary novelists, and is a reviewer for the New York Times. Two of her translations were nominated for the 2016 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 130mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781911508205
• ISBN-10: 1911508202
• Artikelnr.: 48814190

Rezensionen

Alicia Kopf's genre-defying book rises as clear and cold as an Arctic sea, floating with ideas that, like icebergs, are buoyed up by meaning and memory below their surface.' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan.'In another country this book would have changed the course of history.' Enrique Vila-Matas.'As if by sleight of hand, Kopf displays a wide range of emotions before us. Like the Poles, they are constantly shifting, and inevitably epic.' Agustín Fernández Mallo.'A unconventional look at a world that makes [Kopf] feel uncomfortable . . . a text in which the feats of polar explorers give way to a central autobiographical story about the equally harsh and arid trips through family relationships and within oneself.' El País.'Simultaneously serious and light, incidental and yet trascendental.' El Periódico'A book, part essay and part autobiography, that is also a chronicle of a generation stalled in a world without horizons or certainties . . . An unusual book and the deserving winner of the Premi Documenta literary award.'La Vanguardia