ONE OF GRANTA'S '20 BEST OF YOUNG BRAZILIAN NOVELISTS'
Selected as one of the Best Books 2017 in the Financial Times
Is it better to burn out than to fade away?
In this sinuous meditation on passion, youth and guilt, a man looks back twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria. The year is 1993, and while he's undertaking military service, his best friend accompanies Valeria to a Nirvana gig in his absence - a night he feels has defined his entire adult life ever since.
Entwining this most personal story with seminal events of the 1990s, A Poison Apple circles back to some of the biggest questions: what is a life worth? What does it mean to really commit to living? And can we ever break free of the past?
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"It is both timely and gratifying to see one of the country's outstanding writers come to the attention of an English-language readership" -- Angel Gurria-Quintana * Financial Times * "I read A Poison Apple in two impulsive, impatient sittings... Michel Laub is one of the most intelligent novelists at work south of the equator. If he were north of the equator, he'd be one of the most intelligent novelists there too. I love the minute intricacy of his compositions, and the way they stage such giant traumas." -- Adam Thirlwell "In this sly and unexpected novel, Laub asks how some thrive in spite of trauma and others fall apart in the face of success." * Financial Times * "DIARY OF THE FALL: Extraordinary... In my world, this novel is already a classic" -- Karl Ove Knausgaard "DIARY OF THE FALL: A work of immense incantatory power" -- Neel Mukherjee * Literary Review *
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
Dicke: 14 mm
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978-1-78470-295-3 (9781784702953)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Michel Laub was born in Porto Alegre and currently lives in Sao Paulo. He is a writer and journalist, and was named one of Granta's twenty 'Best of Young Brazilian Novelists'. Diary of the Fall, which received the Brasilia Award, was his first novel to appear in English. It won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize 2015 and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2016.
