Awards
- Winner of HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis 2018
Overview
"Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us into a war between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, is trying to change the world and write a novel. She, a passable actress, has given up her safe job at the theatre to care for their child. He is delirious, she is on edge. With the rent overdue and violence looming on all sides, the two of them circle one another in a dizzying dance towards the abyss. ""Wow, what an incredible novel. The language! Thank you for publishing this book."" Katja Schneider, stories! bookshop, Hamburg ""Words and images to take your breath away."" taz; ""The experiences so original, the observations so sharp, the thoughts so clever."" Frankfurter Rundschau; ""A sound that tells of political and economic vacuums felt by people in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia to this day."" MDR Kultur; ""The interpersonal magic now lost, or at least forgotten, but above all: poisoned by the big bad world 'out there'. Ivana Sajko celebrates this sad state of affairs with power and intensity. Definitely worth reading."" NDR Kultur; ""Breathless, barely punctuated. Her heroes: a nameless couple in a Mediterranean nowhere, devoted to each other in hate. A tough, great novel."" Neue Presse"
Full Product Details
Author: Ivana Sajko ,
Mima Simic
Publisher: V & Q Books
Imprint: V & Q Books
ISBN: 9783863913304
ISBN 10: 3863913302
Publication Date: 01 April 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""A brilliant novel: intense and poetic, exhilarating and devastating."" Priya Basil"
A brilliant novel: intense and poetic, exhilarating and devastating. Priya Basil
Author Information
Ivana Sajko, born in Zagreb in 1975, is a writer, theatre director and performer, working in the overlapping fields of literature, performance art and music. She is an author of four highly-praised novels and dozens of political theatre pieces, among which Woman-bomb gained international success. Her many awards include the Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et Lettres and the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis. She lives in Berlin. Mima Simic is a Croatian writer, an award-winning film critic, translator, and political activist. Her short stories have been included in numerous anthologies, and have been adapted for radio, TV and animated film. Her translations include works of fiction, non-fiction, literary theory, screenplays, and films. She lives and works in Berlin.
