A long, disturbing dream . . . a fascinating, unsettling ride

* Guardian *

There's so much that feels deeply present about Yuknavitch's latest novel: the ever-expanding police state, lower Manhattan under water and a woman on a mission to rescue other vulnerable women. Yuknavitch's words are incantations, and <i>Thrust</i> is a triumph

* Elle *

An indignant and impressive novel

* New York Times *

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Moving and incisive

* Time *

This weirdly wonderful [novel] on the surveillance state, climate change, and what it means to have agency as a woman in the world will throw your mind for a loop in the best way

* Good Housekeeping *

[This] powerful, braided fable unites workers of the world across time and space and class to start conceiving of a better world . . . Yuknavitch is firmly in control

* Los Angeles Times *

<i>Thrust </i>is alarmingly trenchant - and a hell of a wild ride. Daring, dazzling and earth-splitting, this is a book to take in wide-eyed

- REBECCA MAKKAI, author of The Great Believers,

[The] most mind-blowing book about America I've ever inhaled . . . I read <i>Thrust</i> in a state of flustered fascination and finished longing to dream it again

* Washington Post *

A unique dystopian tale, one much more than a straightforward calamity-charged premonition

* Buzz Magazine *

A complex novel of great imagination . . . profound, thought-provoking and deeply beautiful

* Shelf Awareness *

Laisve is a refugee in a destroyed city-island, hunted in Raids and haunted by the spirits of her drowned mother and brother. She dives into the river and finds herself travelling between times and waterways that will connect her with people from the past and future. Among them are a group of workers constructing a colossal monument to freedom for a young and bustling nation. But exactly what - and whom - will that liberty represent?As Laisve drifts into their histories, she schools seekers in the ways of dreams, love and the ultimate aim of liberty: to free the next generation from the chains of this one.
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From the visionary author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Joan comes an epic novel tracing the construction of a colossal statue - and the lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781838857851
Publisert
2023-07-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Canongate Books
Vekt
236 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Lidia Yuknavitch is the internationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children and Dora: A Headcase, and of the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

@LidiaYuknavitch | lidiayuknavitch.net