Akil Kumarasamy

Half Gods

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Produktbeschreibung

A startlingly beautiful debut, Akil Kumarasamy's Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ways: following an act of violence, a baby girl is renamed after a Hindu goddess but raised as a Muslim; a lonely butcher from Angola finds solace in a family of refugees in New Jersey; a gentle entomologist, in Sri Lanka, discovers unexpected reserves of courage while searching for his missing son. By turns heartbreaking and fiercely inventive, Half Gods reveals with sharp clarity the ways that parents, children, and friends act as unknowing mirrors to each other, revealing in their all-too human weaknesses, hopes, and sorrows a connection to the divine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt & Company
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 136mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 199g
• ISBN-13: 9781250214959
• ISBN-10: 1250214955
• Artikelnr.: 56971593

Autorenporträt

Akil Kumarasamy is the author of the linked story collection Half Gods, which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, American Short Fiction, BOMB, and other publications. She has received fellowships from the University of East Anglia, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is an assistant professor in the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program.

Inhaltsangabe

Last Prayer
New World
A Story of Happiness
The Office of Missing Persons
When We Were Children
Shade
At the Birthplace of Sound
Brown Smurf
The Butcher
Lifetimes in Flight