Not One Day
Published on 13. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-64605-205-9 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the 2018 Albertine Prize
Finalist for the 2018 Lamba Literary Awards
Finalist for the 2018 French American Foundation Translation Prize
Available in a new edition, Anne Garreta's sensual portrayal of trysts past.
A tour de force of experimental queer feminist writing, Not One Day is renowned Oulipo member Anne Garreta's intimate exploration of the delicate connection between memory, fantasy, love, and desire. Garreta, author of the acclaimed genderless love story Sphinx and experimental novel In Concrete, vows to write every day about a woman from her past. With exquisite elegance, she revisits bygone loves and lusts, capturing memories of her past relationships in a captivating, erotic composition of momentary interactions and lasting impressions, of longing and of loss.
Finalist for the 2018 Lamba Literary Awards
Finalist for the 2018 French American Foundation Translation Prize
Available in a new edition, Anne Garreta's sensual portrayal of trysts past.
A tour de force of experimental queer feminist writing, Not One Day is renowned Oulipo member Anne Garreta's intimate exploration of the delicate connection between memory, fantasy, love, and desire. Garreta, author of the acclaimed genderless love story Sphinx and experimental novel In Concrete, vows to write every day about a woman from her past. With exquisite elegance, she revisits bygone loves and lusts, capturing memories of her past relationships in a captivating, erotic composition of momentary interactions and lasting impressions, of longing and of loss.
Reviews / Votes
One of Literary Hub's "30 Books We're Looking Forward To" in 2017Recommended in CLMP's 2020 "Reading List for Pride Month & Beyond"
Selected by Words Without Borders as one of "8 Queer Books in Translation to Read for Pride Month 2020"
Recommended in Flavorwire's "22 Essential Women Writers to Read in Translation"
One of The New Yorker's "Best Books We Read in 2021"
"I could smother the book with adoration-it is aching and maddening, intelligent and wildly sexy. But it would be simpler to say that reading it is like meeting someone new and feeling the world come undone. Here is a book that insists that the desire for fiction, for its mimicry and its mirage, is indistinguishable from the desire for another person." -Merve Emre, The New Yorker
"Winner of the Prix Medicis, this intense collection of Garreta's memories of past loves-written under strict Oulipian constraints-is at times at once tender, bitter, and intimate." -Literary Hub
"Garreta more or less perfected the post-modern confessional, doing so with a self-awareness that many authors fail to accomplish... Not One Day is a casual revelation; a delight." -Sean Redmond, fields Magazine
"Deep Vellum has brought out one of the best books I've read this year, one whose compact nature contains more room inside than might be guessed from its modest exterior. Happily, Anne Garreta's ambition is to create books that are not the products of an assembly line." -Jeff Bursey, The Winnipeg Review
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Language
English
Place of publication
Texas
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 85 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
138 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64605-205-9 (9781646052059)
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Anne Garreta
Not One Day
Book
06/2017
Deep Vellum Publishing
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Anne Garreta, author of the groundbreaking novel Sphinx (Deep Vellum, 2015), is a member of the renowned Oulipo literary group. Not One Day won the Prix Medicis in 2002, recognizing Garreta as an author "whose fame does not yet match their talent." Garreta is also the author of In Concrete, translated by Emma Ramadan (Deep Vellum, 2021).
Emma Ramadan is a literary translator of poetry and prose from France, the Middle East, and North Africa. She is the recipient of a Fulbright, an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and the 2018 Albertine Prize. Her translations for Deep Vellum include Anne Garreta's Sphinx and In Concrete, Fouad Laroui's The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers, and Brice Matthieussent's Revenge of the Translator.
Emma Ramadan is a literary translator of poetry and prose from France, the Middle East, and North Africa. She is the recipient of a Fulbright, an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and the 2018 Albertine Prize. Her translations for Deep Vellum include Anne Garreta's Sphinx and In Concrete, Fouad Laroui's The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers, and Brice Matthieussent's Revenge of the Translator.