Junebat
- 120pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
From award winning author John Elizabeth Stintzi, Junebat is a form- and gender-disrupting debut collection that grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming.
John Elizabeth Stintzi Libri
John Elizabeth Stintzi è un autore non binario la cui prosa e poesia si immergono nelle complessità dell'identità umana e del legame con la terra. La loro opera è caratterizzata da un'acuta introspezione e da un linguaggio poetico che esplora le intricate relazioni tra gli individui e il mondo che li circonda. Attraverso immagini evocative e metafore originali, esaminano temi come la memoria, la perdita e la ricerca del proprio posto in un paesaggio in continua evoluzione. La scrittura di Stintzi risuona nei lettori per la sua profondità emotiva e la sua raffinatezza letteraria.
Vanishing Monuments
- 304pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia.
On June 2, 2016, a jogger in Central Park discovers a mass of stone in the reservoir, which soon transforms into a towering stratovolcano. This bizarre occurrence aligns with a surge of strange global phenomena. The narrative weaves mythic elements with stark realism, capturing the sensation of living in a world on fire. A diverse cast experiences personal and collective upheavals: an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City travels back 500 years to witness the fall of the Aztec Empire; a folktale scholar in Tokyo investigates a tale of a woman descending a mountain to wreak havoc; a white trans writer in Jersey City struggles to craft a sci-fi novel about an impossible civilization; a nurse with Doctors Without Borders aids Syrian refugees in Greece while grappling with the trauma of surviving a bombing in Afghanistan; and a nomadic herder in Mongolia transforms into a green, flowering creature determined to cleanse the planet's pollution. With its audacious structure and poetic prose, this novel presents a fiery tapestry of interconnected stories. Critics have praised it as a contemporary folktale that captures the tumultuous present, blending history, myth, and vision in a way that is both gripping and haunting.