The 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the Shortlist, Thammavongsa Souvankham

Автор: Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Название: How to pronounce knife
ISBN: 1526610434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526610430
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Автор: Thammavongsa Souvankham
Название: How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
ISBN: 0316422134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316422130
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Описание: Spare, unsentimental, and distilled to riveting essentials, these stories honor the surreal, funny, often wrenching realities of trying to build a life far from home.

In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and asks her father, the only adult in the family who can read English, to help her pronounce a tricky word, a simple exchange with unforgettable consequences. Thammavongsa is a master at honing in on moments like this--moments of exposure, dislocation, and messy feeling that push us right smack up against the limits of language.

The taut, visceral stories that make up How to Pronounce Knife focus on characters struggling to find their bearings in unfamiliar territory, or shuttling between idioms, cultures, and values. A failed boxer discovers what it truly means to be a champion when he starts painting nails at his sister's salon. A young woman tries to discern the invisible but immutable social hierarchies that govern relationships at a chicken processing plant. A mother -coaches her daughter in the challenging art of worm harvesting. Charging her clear, direct sentences with immense power, Thammavongsa interrogates what it means to make a living, both in the sense of work and in the sense of creating meaning and identity in precarious circumstances.

Aiming its penetrating gaze at brutality and tenderness, revulsion and arousal, pain and laughter alike, How to Pronounce Knife establishes Thammavongsa as one of the most striking and assured voices of her generation.

Автор: Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Название: How to pronounce knife
ISBN: 1526610450 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526610454
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Описание: The stars of Jonathan Fenske`s 2016 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book, A Pig, a Fox, and a Box, and A Pig, a Fox, and Stinky Socks return in another humorous three-part story designed to engage early readers. This story contains charming characters combined with simple text, lively illustrations, and laugh-out-loud humour to help boost kids` confidence and create lifelong readers!

Автор: Thammavongsa Souvankham
Название: How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
ISBN: 0316422126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316422123
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Описание: WINNER OF THE 2020 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

"As the daughter of refugees, I'm able to finally see myself in stories." --Angela So, Electric Literature

Named one of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2020 and one of the best books of the month by The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Salon, The Millions, Bustle, and Vogue, this revelatory debut story collection from O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world."

A failed boxer painting nails at the local salon. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. A mother teaching her daughter the art of worm harvesting. In her stunning debut story collection, O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa focuses on characters struggling to make a living, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance, and above all, their pursuit of a place to belong. In spare, intimate prose charged with emotional power and a sly wit, she paints an indelible portrait of watchful children, wounded men, and restless women caught between cultures, languages, and values. As one of Thammavongsa's characters says, "All we wanted was to live." And in these stories, they do--brightly, ferociously, unforgettably.

Unsentimental yet tender, taut and visceral, How to Pronounce Knife announces Souvankham Thammavongsa as one of the most striking voices of her generation.

Автор: Thammavongsa, Souvankham
Название: Cluster
ISBN: 0771070985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780771070983
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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